This farm used to irrigate with well and municipal water, but artists Marjetica PotrÄ and Marguerite Kahrl have developed a solar
powered rainwater harvesting system to gather the water from the roofs of the greenhouses.
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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.
At our factory we have adopted processes of utilising solar
power,
harvesting rainwater, waste minimisation, resource conservation, recycling and sustainable manufacturing decisions and processes.
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.
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.