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Rainwater Harvesting (pdf 934kb)

This technical brief examines typical domestic rainwater harvesting systems, including storage tanks and cisterns, guttering, first flush systems, filtration systems and settling tanks. It sets out three methods for sizing the system. It also examines user behaviour patterns with domestic rainwater harvesting, rainwater quality and health, as well as offering four case studies of domestic systems.

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http://www.itdg.org/docs/ technical_information_service/ rainwater_harvesting.pdf
Source: Intermediate Technology Development Group (http://www.itdg.org)
Added to ADG on: 08 June 2005 , contributed by: ADG team
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