How can you collect rainwater cheaply?

Posted by Luke Quentel, on July 10, 2024.

Okay. With collection of rainwater, the most obvious way, I suppose, of collecting rainwater is just trying to cut off a surface down into a container. Now, we, at Graf, of course, would promote the use of like a water bucket, for example, so an aboveground tank. Come in lots of different colors, lots of different volumes, and of course, once that water bucket’s in place, it’s going to cost you anything from, I don’t know, 25 to 300 pounds, depending on volume and the style. You can then basically use that water bucket for five, 10, however many years you want, and we’ve always got that potential basin of water to tap into to water your plants. You could, of course, also stick a pump in it and use it for outside cleaning, jet washing as well, so that is just a really simple way to collect some rain water to reuse it later. You could also talk about, not quite so cheap, but something that always has to be done anyway. When we talk about SUD solutions, so sustainable urban drainage systems, we have to have a flood permit prevention mechanism in place in urban city areas. Now, you have to dig down, put a crate system in place, generally speaking, to capture that flood water, that storm water, and then, it’s released into the network. There’s not much more that needs to be done to a solution that’s already really going into the ground, to increase that storage volume, and of course, we can then retain that water. So then we can reuse it later to support green field sites. So with, yeah, rainwater hubs in general, the best way you can do it is add onto an existing solution like SUDs, or you can really just look at some source of above ground solutions, certainly on domestic level, so you can use it for outside cleaning and watering your plants, irrigation. To collect rainwater cheaply, there are a few simple options. One way is to use a water butt, an aboveground tank available in different sizes and colors, costing around £25-£300. This allows you to store rainwater for years and use it for watering plants or outdoor cleaning with the help of a pump. Another option is to incorporate rainwater collection into sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDs) required for flood prevention in cities. By adding storage capacity to these systems, rainwater can be retained and reused to support green areas. Whether using a water butt or integrating with existing solutions like SUDs, collecting rainwater is an affordable and eco-friendly approach.


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