How Much Rain Water Are You Recycling?

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Friends of mine built their dream house in Florida not too long ago. They have a couple of acres and a huge pond in front of their house. While at their house I noticed that they have an extension attached to the ends of the gutters that goes underground. Now I found that rather strange, so I asked where that water was ending up. They told me that when they were designing the house they thought about how they were going to maintain the pond water level up, so they decided that diverting the rain water to the pond would be a good way to help do that. They had an extra expense while they were setting up the system, but now can capture all the rain water that comes their way. Not a bad way to recycle rain water.

It occurred to me that there must be many re-uses for rain water. Here are a few of the easier ideas to implement. These come especially handy in those areas throughout the country where there are water restrictions due to dryer weather.

Other ways to recycle rain water is to divert the water into rain barrels and then reuse the water for you garden, cleaning or even flushing your toilets. It can also be used for drinking but would have to be filtered and that requires a cistern and several filters and a purification system, not an easy or cheap process but it can be done. For now we’ll stick to the easier ones.

For Garden Use:

If you use a rain barrel you can attach a faucet to the bottom and then attach a Soaker Hose to the faucet. Place the soaker hose around the plants you want to water and turn the faucet on, this system uses gravity to drain the water. Several rain barrels around the house should water the majority of your garden.

For Cleaning:

The water can be used for cleaning projects around the house: Washing your car, hose down your driveway, paths and patios, clean out the gutters, it might even work with the faucet attached to the rain barrel and a power washer? (Not sure, but maybe worth a try)

For Flushing Toilets:

Another way I found out where rain water could be recycled, is to use it to flush toilets. Here’s a site that shows how to do this.

Rain Barrel to toilet installation

If you’ve discovered other ways to recycle rain water, please share them with us.