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Time to Put Rainwater Harvesting into Every Green Building Project?
Monday, August 09, 2010One of my favorite green building technologies is rainwater harvesting: the capture, treatment and use of rainwater for uses inside the building such as toilet flushing and cooling-tower makeup water (to replace water lost by evaporation and back-flushing). This is such a simple and obvious thing to do in much of the country that one wonders why it has taken so long to be considered as a viable new water supply. Why harvest rainwater? There are many good reasons, starting with the fact that rainwater is high-quality water. Shouldn’t every green building project harvest rainwater? See Chapter 9 of my new book, Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis, for a fuller discussion of using water that nature gives us for free.
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