Sentences with phrase «more rainwater harvesting»

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Acqua for Life, launched in 2011, has in its first three years raised funds for the successful implementation of water pumps, wells and rainwater harvesting systems in more than 60 communities and schools in Ghana, Bolivia, Mexico and China, providing around 150 million litres of water per year.

The facility received LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, as it has more than 20,000 solar panels, a rainwater harvesting system with up to 400,000 gallons to use in irrigation, and drought resistant plants.

Every home could be designed to harvest rainwater as well to provide more than enough water for showers and clothes washing.

One can create a more self - sufficient home through a variety of ways: it might mean installing a system of solar panels or a way to harvest rainwater, reuse graywater or find some way to incorporate the growing of food.

Making the city surfaces more permeable is an infrastructural change that has to be considered as seriously as rainwater harvesting.

In Tilwari, for example, water from a natural source was piped to a place in the village more accessible than hiking up a steep slope carrying a bucket of water — but the project also supported a rainwater harvesting initiative, where a family that is too far to benefit from the piped water has installed gutters on the roof of the house that direct water into a cistern that they keep underground behind the house.

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More than 620,000 - square - feet of landscaped area has been irrigated by our three storm management cisterns that harvest up to one million liters of rainwater at a time.

Adaptive measures that may prove particularly effective include rainwater harvesting, conservation tillage, maintaining vegetation cover, planting trees in steeply - sloping fields, mini-terracing for soil and moisture conservation, improved pasture management, water re-use, desalination, and more efficient soil and irrigation - water management.

67 % of readers enquired about airtightness products, making it the most popular enquiry; Next came insulation on 65 %, with passive house & low energy build systems neck and neck with heat recovery ventilation on 57 %; 47 % of people enquired about rainwater harvesting, making it the most popular non-energy related category; 80 % of readers enquired about one or more types of renewable energy technology.

An ideal rainwater harvesting system does not capture more water than a landscape can use because water surpluses can become a nuisance if water is not utilized within three to four months (think stagnant water).

the concept of «harvesting» is also explored more literally, in the project, where the laneways and modpods will act as a venue for the harvesting of rainwater and urban farming food.

So far, six households in the neighborhood are engaged in the experiment to live more consciously through a variety of low (er)- tech practices such as organic gardening, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, renewable energy generation and even cleaning polluted well water with a living machine.

The sustainable building features of Hearthside Brookleigh will include energy - efficient appliances and lighting fixtures, indoor air quality improvements, a rainwater harvest system, LED outdoor lighting and more.