Tuesday
Feb092010
2010 Southern Building Showcase Home
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:00PM 
RainCatchers is proud to partner with The Hoots Group and Joel Kelly Designs on a rainwater harvesting system for the 2010 Southern Building Showcase House. Rainwater from the roof of Midtown Green House will gravity-feed through a vortex filter and into an inground 5,000 gallon fiberglass cistern. From the cistern rainwater will be pumped into an irrigation system and into the house where it will be purified and used to supply toilets and washing machines. This will help establish superior water efficiency and mitigate stormwater runoff while scoring points for the ecohome's LEED certification.
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Great for the south where it actually rains. Wish we had more of it in California. So when we looked at how we could conserve water, we went another route: a gray water system
A few months ago we installed an Aqua2use connected to our washing machine. It only took a couple of hours for our plumber to set up. It filters the water from the laundry and then sends it automatically through a drip irrigation system in our garden. Works great and it means we can water every day for free.
Info here: http://waterwisegroup.com/