Comments on: Harvesting Rainwater From an Arid Future http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/ Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities Thu, 24 May 2012 21:36:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: chris http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-45191 chris Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:24:11 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-45191 Rain water harvesting is still an area that needs true investigation and varies via region in the Southwest. However, there is an existing techonology that reduces your water usage by 30-40% and it is made by Water legacy. The product is a WL55 and it takes your shower water and recylces it to a tank which then filters the shower water to run to you toilet. So Stop Flushing Fresh Water. Rain water harvesting is still an area that needs true investigation and varies via region in the Southwest. However, there is an existing techonology that reduces your water usage by 30-40% and it is made by Water legacy. The product is a WL55 and it takes your shower water and recylces it to a tank which then filters the shower water to run to you toilet. So Stop Flushing Fresh Water.

]]> By: chris http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-99684 chris Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:24:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-99684 Rain water harvesting is still an area that needs true investigation and varies via region in the Southwest. However, there is an existing techonology that reduces your water usage by 30-40% and it is made by Water legacy. The product is a WL55 and it takes your shower water and recylces it to a tank which then filters the shower water to run to you toilet. So Stop Flushing Fresh Water. Rain water harvesting is still an area that needs true investigation and varies via region in the Southwest. However, there is an existing techonology that reduces your water usage by 30-40% and it is made by Water legacy. The product is a WL55 and it takes your shower water and recylces it to a tank which then filters the shower water to run to you toilet. So Stop Flushing Fresh Water.

]]> By: Peter http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-44567 Peter Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:35:13 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-44567 You better check the legality of rainwater collection in UT if one is interested in this sort of thing. Colorado - which has similar water rights laws to UT - just legalized rainwater collection this year. Previously, diverting rainwater was against water rights regulations and case law that predated statehood. You better check the legality of rainwater collection in UT if one is interested in this sort of thing. Colorado – which has similar water rights laws to UT – just legalized rainwater collection this year. Previously, diverting rainwater was against water rights regulations and case law that predated statehood.

]]> By: Peter http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-99683 Peter Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:35:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-99683 You better check the legality of rainwater collection in UT if one is interested in this sort of thing. Colorado - which has similar water rights laws to UT - just legalized rainwater collection this year. Previously, diverting rainwater was against water rights regulations and case law that predated statehood. You better check the legality of rainwater collection in UT if one is interested in this sort of thing. Colorado – which has similar water rights laws to UT – just legalized rainwater collection this year. Previously, diverting rainwater was against water rights regulations and case law that predated statehood.

]]> By: Lucas http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-44045 Lucas Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-44045 looks like a modern adaptation of classic desert Southwest design What would be really cool is if they used some radiant night sky cooling for their hydronic floor, a la Carnegie Institute for Global Ecology at Stanford. http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/mixedmode/carnegie.html check out the pictures and the HVAC section for explanation. You can thank Peter Rumsey engineers for that one. looks like a modern adaptation of classic desert Southwest design
What would be really cool is if they used some radiant night sky cooling for their hydronic floor, a la Carnegie Institute for Global Ecology at Stanford.

http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/mixedmode/carnegie.html

check out the pictures and the HVAC section for explanation. You can thank Peter Rumsey engineers for that one.

]]> By: Lucas http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-99682 Lucas Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:15:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-99682 looks like a modern adaptation of classic desert Southwest design What would be really cool is if they used some radiant night sky cooling for their hydronic floor, a la Carnegie Institute for Global Ecology at Stanford. http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/mixedmode/carnegie.html check out the pictures and the HVAC section for explanation. You can thank Peter Rumsey engineers for that one. looks like a modern adaptation of classic desert Southwest design
What would be really cool is if they used some radiant night sky cooling for their hydronic floor, a la Carnegie Institute for Global Ecology at Stanford.

http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/mixedmode/carnegie.html

check out the pictures and the HVAC section for explanation. You can thank Peter Rumsey engineers for that one.

]]> By: Keith http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-44015 Keith Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:55:01 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-44015 This all looks cool, but I have a feeling it costs. I would like to make a home like that but I'm afraid it will cost more than energy bills through life time. (Even if not, where could a man find that amount of money by once?) Anyway, I like the whole idea of sustainable (independent) home. This all looks cool, but I have a feeling it costs. I would like to make a home like that but I’m afraid it will cost more than energy bills through life time. (Even if not, where could a man find that amount of money by once?) Anyway, I like the whole idea of sustainable (independent) home.

]]> By: Keith http://greenbuildingelements.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-rainwater-from-an-arid-future/comment-page-1/#comment-99681 Keith Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:55:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=1198#comment-99681 This all looks cool, but I have a feeling it costs. I would like to make a home like that but I'm afraid it will cost more than energy bills through life time. (Even if not, where could a man find that amount of money by once?) Anyway, I like the whole idea of sustainable (independent) home. This all looks cool, but I have a feeling it costs. I would like to make a home like that but I’m afraid it will cost more than energy bills through life time. (Even if not, where could a man find that amount of money by once?) Anyway, I like the whole idea of sustainable (independent) home.

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