Water water everywhere… but not a drop to water your garden?! Why not save water and save on your bills by collecting rain water?!
Perhaps you live in a dry area, where rain is scarce most of the year round, or perhaps you want to collect little and often. In this video, Ben demonstrates how to get the most out of the resources you have to hand in this easy to follow tutorial. Get ready to make a splash!
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i will harvest as much water as i want. Fuck the governmant.
You're kidding! US gallons are different to imperial gallons? Ugh. Get with the metric program peeps…..
Cooling Europe
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The simplest way to cool down in Europe, is so suck water vapour from the seas. This sounds hard! It is not. You need a polyurethane snorkel weighted down, and use solar powered vacuum pumps to apply one metre of vacuum.
Or sea water rises up, but before he hits one metre it boils off into fuel water vapour. The salts falls with coal water, by back into the seas as concentrated brine.
We just pump out water vapour. Which is 1000 times cheaper and easier to pump and liquid water. So we pump the water 500 metres inshore.
Great vid …many thanks.
Gilly wife of Mark
I live in S. Portugal and roof guttering is both expensive and difficult to install so I use a series of 40 litre buckets under the roof drip line and an electric water pump. I then pump into 7 x 1,000 ltr tanks. I am working on finding space for at least another one tank. We get very little rain some winters so I also need to increase the number of buckets for when it does rain. We also have a borehole which I use for the automatic irrigation as the rainwater is simply insufficient for the 6 months of drought and heat.
If there is risk of freezing you'll have to take precautions against ice destroying the container, especially if it is cylindrical.
Mine are oblong, so they can bulge out, but I drop broken buckets and plastic pots inside for additional security to prevent a solid sheet of ice.
The pro solution would be a double-layered foil zigzagging from top (attached to a swimmer) to bottom at a 30degree angle or less, with the foil being cut at each turn, so the ice sheets can move into each other. Vertical distance determined by string/rope.
For cylindrical containers, ribbed foil funnels somewhat like this should be ideal except a lot flatter (again, 30 degrees or less to horizontal):
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I just used a big garbage can
I’ve just begun researching this topic and I have a small patio garden. The setup I have at the moment is I use the starter trays placed under some of my elevated raised garden totes to collect water during rainfall, then I transfer to watering containers. I also leave containers out without lids on to collect rain as well—these I place under patio chairs.
This video has certainly gave me a few more ideas to collect even more rainfall in a small area where I’m limited from doing a more elaborate set up.
Thank you!!!
I cant wright as fast as you talk
How do you feel about how news is declaring all rainwater is contaminated with forever chemicals?
You remind me so much of a friend I had a Reading Uni called Ben. (Wantage Hall)
Can you hook up a tank to irrigation?
Where can you get rain barrels?
I've Always beloved rain water collection and use was a great idea and I don't understand why Cities would object .
The "let's dive straight in' moment is a cinematic marvel
All rainwater on earth is now toxic. So dont boil it, the forever chemicals will just become more processed. fyi
I love your work Ben thanx a lot
please dont mix uints. Super confusing
Great video! I have a large glass topped rectangular patio table which I tilt slightly so the water drains off one corner. Amazing how fast it will fill a 5 gallon pail in a moderate rain. I use the water for my indoor plants, like dracaenas. Thanks!
bath tubs in serise with eddible crutations, fish, rice, lotus roots, water chestnuts & watercress. I like the hot tub idea too
iyou mean some region have restrictions for harvesting rain water!? for whats reasons!?
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If you want clean rainwater without a bunch of hard chemicals or leftover residue do not at all ever ever ever ever ever collect rainwater from your roof I don’t know who decided to say that that was a good idea ever but it’s not. Ever. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this false information do not use rainwater from roofs
Great vid. I'm looking for rain barrels., where to buy????
I'm gonna have a rooftop garden and I wanna catch the rain from my roof. How can I send up the water? It would be too heavy to carry upstairs
We're having issues with our well. I am going to start using rainwater for my gardens. This was very helpful!
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From where do you have the tules to connect between the rain pot and the drain-pipe?
Thanks from Esther
Your formula does not give the answer of 900 gallons you stated. It gives 1440. 60 sq ft x 32 inches x .75 = 1440 no matter the order of operations