Rainfall Links

Rainwater Harvesting and Purification System http://www.rdrop.com/users/krishna/rainwatr.html
A description of a household in Oregon that installed a rainwater catchment system at a residence. Includes materials necessary to construct and prices of the components.

The Rainwater Catchment System at the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/water/rain.html
A description and explanation of the rainwater catchment system located at California State University at Humboldt at the Center for Appropriate Technology.

Rainwater Catchment System http://www.i4at.org/surv/raincat.html
A brief overview of what a rainwater catchment system is and what it does. Also included is a general pro and con list of installing a rainwater catchment system.

Rainwater Catchment http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004Pxu
Answers to a person's query about rainwater catchment systems. Multiple responses are given in e-mail form answering and offering many ideas on how to incorporate a rainwater catchment system into a residence.

Rainwater harvesting from rooftop http://www.oas.org/usde/publications/Unit/oea59e/ch10.html"
A detailed site describing the applications and benefits of installing a rainwater catchment system.

Texas Guide to Rainwater Harvesting http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/publications/reports/RainHarv.pdf
Guide provides technique of capture rainfall that can be implemented on residential or small scale commercial applications. Guides was developed by the center for Maximum Potential Building system, Austin, Texas.

Center For Science and Environment http://www.cseindia.org/html/cmp/cmp43.htm
India's environmental organization interested in sustainable natural resource management. Introducing the ways to conserve water.

Developing Technology Unit (School of Engineering Eniversity of Warwick) http://www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/DTU/index.htm
Interested in developing the technologies in the rural area of tropical countries. The DTU Roofing Water Harvesting program introducing the domestic roof water harvesting system. Contains detail descriptions of how to construct it.

Greening parking lots in the city of totonto http://www.utoronto.ca/envstudy/INI498/majnat.htm
Report proposes to increase the green portion in the city of Toronto. Introducing the use of effective storm water system that is implemented on the parking lots in the city.

Global Ecovillage Network http://www.gaia.org/secretariats/genoceania/quarterly/archive/dec_99/articles/ecoapart.html
Introduces the environment- friendly building in Japan. The Apartment that has special system to recycle rain water, uses windmills to generate energy solar power to heat water.

Estimating a water budget and rainfall harvest http://twri.tamu.edu/twripubs/wtrSavrs/v3n2/article-5.html
preparation for the rainwater catchment system and a chart of household population support by the water that the system gatered.

Rainwater Catchment (Tanzania) http://www.idrc.ca/adventure/rainwate.html
Address the water problem in Maswa District, central Tanzania, Which is the women and children need to walk five hours to transport water to household usage and some time they need to pay for the water in Dar es Salaam. Solution is to train the people in Maswa District and Dar es Salaam to build and to maintain the rainwater catchment system.

Rainwater Harvesting and Purification System http://www.bagelhole.org/drafts/Rainwater.html
An example in Portland, which has a list of the materials to build the system and the total cost for which material. The contact numbers to some of the material that their system used.

Rain Water Harvesting http://Envirocircle.com/feature/feature_index.asp
A list of articles on the issue of rainwater harvesting around the world.

Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Montana http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/pubs/mt9707.html
Author: Gretchen Rupp, PE, Extension Engineer/Specialist A pretty example of the system, which including advantages, and disadvantages. A complete information on the system, such as how each part of the system works, how to design the system, where to get the material.