The Los Angeles Times just reported (1/17/08) on how savvy designers are helping homeowners collect and reuse storm water rather than seeing it all wash away. The article provides some ideas, plans, links and case studies from homeowners who make good use of rainwater. Most of the systems divert roof run off, via gutters to a cistern. The general rule to determine cistern size is that 1 inch of rainfall landing on a 1000 sq. ft. roof yields about 600 gallons of water. Click here to read the full article.
A report published by TreePeople on how to use rainwater as a resource can be downloaded from www.treepeople.org.
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