Rainwater harvesting
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Rainwater harvesting is the collection and storage of rainwater, rather than allowing it to run off. Rainwater is collected from a roof-like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit, aquife
Configuration of domestic rainwater harvesting system in Uganda. Rain that falls on the roof of the building is transferred through the guttering to the storage tank.
Rainwater capture and storage system, Mexico City campus, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Cistern, Mission District, San Francisco, California
Rainwater capture, Gibraltar East Side, 1992
Rainwater tank
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A rainwater tank is a water tank used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes. Rainwater tanks are devices for collecting and storing harvested rain. A rainwater catch
Rainwater harvesting
…is the collection and storage of rainwater, rather than allowing it to run off. Rainwater is collected from a roof-like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), aquifer, or a reservoir with percolation, so that it seeps down and restores the ground water. Rainwater…
Rainwater tank in the CERES Community Environment Park in Melbourne, Australia
Example of caged IBC totes being used for rainwater harvesting
Rain barrels in Charente-Maritime, France
Large polyethylene rainwater tanks being installed