Sentences with phrase «for rainwater harvesting»

In true hybrid style, based on the Toyota Prius concept of efficiency, the home design combines pre-engineered building with energy conservation features such as a solar home shading system, a movable living green roof, and a 10,000 gallon water storage tank plus a separate 3,000 gallon tank for rainwater harvesting capability.

There's a car battery here that stores the solar power, an 80 - litre water tank, gas tank for cooking, and piping for the rainwater harvesting system that collects water in the 1000 - litre tanks outside and waters the exterior living wall, which shades and cools the structure.

Besides the cool aquaponics, I'd love to hear about other solutions for rainwater harvesting without a roof.

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Food + Water > Water - Efficient Agriculture Techniques like effective rainwater harvesting and gravity powered irrigation allow for the continuation of high - yield agriculture while still saving water.

The Rainforest Alliance also taught us how to conserve water, and so I bought a tank for harvesting rainwater.

The head of the Murray Darling Basin Authority admits the authority is powerless to prevent upstream farmers harvesting rainwater desperately needed to flow through the river system for the benefit of all users.

When it comes to rainwater harvesting, the underlying proposition is very simple — the essential idea is collection of rainwater and then subsequently filtering and pumping it for further selective use.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

«We are working on a new model that will help us account for soil moisture and other factors like the impact of timber harvesting on rainwater infiltration and the location of communities,» Stark said.

One example is the Sukhomajri village in the Himalaya's where the community became well - known in the 1980s for coming together to stop Sukhna Lake from silting up as well as for harvesting rainwater, and in the process transforming their village.

Today many proven techniques for «rainwater harvesting» can collect and store rain for later use by people, livestock and crops.

The installation of domestic rainwater harvesting systems leads to substantial savings for families on detergents and other additives used for laundry purposes, and also makes a valuable contribution to reducing this activity's environmental impact.

For this reason, this type of rainwater harvesting system is particularly recommendable in districts with high population densities, such as (in Barcelona) Sants, Verdun, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni or el Guinardó, whose consumption of resources per m3 is up to 40 % lower than that of districts like Pedralbes, Sarrià, la Clota, el Bon Pastor, Vall d'Hebron or Vallvidrera.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

Through the construction of water supply systems in communities and rainwater harvesting systems in school compounds, Acqua for Life and Green Cross ensure community members, particularly women and children, have sustainable access to safe water.

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.

Principal Tim Lauer, now in his seventh year at Lewis, has watched his outdoor learning space expand to include raised garden beds, greenhouses, composting bins, and even an outdoor classroom complete with eco-roof and barrels for harvesting rainwater.

This was equipped with water butts to harvest the rainwater for use on the new plants, and compost bins to encourage recycling.

CSH: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms, which was the rainbow that you constructed from harvested and reclaimed rainwater at the Bemis Center for Contemporary art in Omaha, NE, and The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows, a large - scale installation made for Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO and DiverseWorks, Houston, TX are arguably your most well - know works to date.

With the news that the US State of Colorado has decided to make it legal for small farmers to collect rainwater - holding out the possibility that city dwellers, too, may one day be offered legal means to harvest rain - a tipping point approaches.

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

It features rain chains for harvesting rainwater, skylights, wide windows for passive cooling, and traditional building methods like earth plaster for humidity control and charred wood siding (shou sugi ban or a scorched - wood technique from Japan) for better protection against the elements.

One might think that green roofs and rainwater harvesting were made for each other, that the sand, soil and filter cloth would help clean the water as it made it's way to the drain.

As demands on fresh water resources multiply, farmers need to embrace ways in which they effectively use what they have, for example through 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.

The community also received harvesting tanks for rainwaters and vegetable gardens to grow their own food.

Check out HarvestH20.com for some more great resources on harvesting rainwater and recycling your grey water.

Metal roofing panels complete the roof exterior, allowing Dan to harvest rainwater for the rich vegetable garden growing outside Wisteria's front door.

The major outcome of the workshop will address how to integrate, water harvesting techniques to boost household food security, improve on - farm retention capacity, mobilize communities to harvest rainwater through river dams, earth dams and farming techniques as a foundation for successful tree planting and food security implementation.

Water: Kingspan Environmental rainwater harvesting systems feeding a tap in the garden for watering plants and washing cars

(above, clockwise from top left) the walls of the eight units at Garville Drive were constructed from traditional concrete - block cavity - walls, with 100 mm of Xtratherm full - fill Cavitytherm board between the inner and outer leafs; Gyproc Airtite Quiet plaster behind 25 mm battens for the internal service cavity prior to installation of plasterboard, with airtightness detailing of key junctions using Siga tapes also visible; 150 mm Paratherm PIR insulation on the flat roof, part of a Moy extensive green roof system; a Kingspan Environmental rainwater harvesting system feeds garden garden taps at the development.

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.

Building a rainwater AND greywater harvesting system... 22 Lesson Plans for grades 4 to High School... Rain water gardens to control runoff...

Do you wish you had a rain barrel to harvest rainwater from your roof — but don't want to spend $ 100's or settle for an ugly blue plastic container?

For example, SCDA - designed hotels often feature eco-friendly practices such as rainwater harvesting systems, waste treatment plants, and architecture that minimises the need for air - conditioniFor example, SCDA - designed hotels often feature eco-friendly practices such as rainwater harvesting systems, waste treatment plants, and architecture that minimises the need for air - conditionifor air - conditioning.

Martin, in addition to rainwater harvesting, it would be great to have a conversation about what resilience looks like for a manufacturer of roofing products.

Driven by the intersection of sprawl & extended drought, and amplified by a citizenry's enduring fondness for «individual responsibility,» rainwater harvesting techniques are poised to spread, once freed from inflexible and counterproductive water management traditions stemming from the late 1800's.

A prominent oculus opening in the ceiling not only lets light in, but also helps to harvest rainwater for the proper functioning of the six toilets.

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.

Notwithstanding its green wall and rainwater harvesting, I was not impressed by the fact that Canada's Pavilion for shanghai was being designed by acrobats and jugglers instead of architects.

A quiet but sure revolution in sustainable development has been underway for the last 35 years in India's desert state of Rajasthan, where a new model of rural empowerment and education has taken form in the so - called Barefoot College, an alternative, community - based learning centre that trains rural citizens in the practical training programs for solar engineering, rainwater harvesting, computer programming, midwifery and even photography.

The bees are one of the many initiatives at the new store, which also features rainwater harvesting for use in toilets and irrigation, and reflective pipes in the roof for natural cooling,

For example, their massive store in Logan, Queensland won environmental design awards, due to the fact that it flushes it toilets and waters it's landscaping from harvested rainwater stored in two 300,000 litre tanks.

A wall - mounted Dickinson woodstove and Envi unit provides heat; a four - panel, 940 - watt solar panel array provides power; there's the requisite composting toilet; and there's a rainwater harvesting and storage system that provides filtered water for bathing and washing.

From proposals of LA having mandatory rainwater harvesting laws to the possibility of allowing residents to use rainwater for both outdoor and indoor use, the state is doing all it can to make what little rainfall it gets go the distance among residents.

Northwest Earth Institute has partnered with RainReserve, a national company that makes innovative rainwater harvesting products for the 2013 EcoChallenge.

For self - builder James Byrne, building to the passive house standard was just one element of an approach that aimed to drastically reduce the environmental impact of his house — built from a hemp and lime system, it also features solar collectors, rainwater harvesting and natural wastewater treatment.

Featuring a number of «green» elements, including solar geysers, gas hobs, Low - E glazing, insulated ceilings, and with a rainwater harvesting system planned for the future, the development is a quick stroll away from Humewood Beach and a host of vibey eateries.

Green measures, especially renewable solar, geothermal and rainwater harvesting are still considered risky, unmarketable upgrades, in many regions, and need to be quantified and analyzed for risk.