Rain Tanks and Water Rhaposdy Harvesting Systems

Rain water tanks are a very popular option for our customers during winter time.  The rational behind the

Rainwater Harvesting in Cape Town

installation of a water tank is that there is copious amounts of FREE WATER falling on your roof during the Cape Town winter and our rainwater harvesting system offers a unique method on capitalising on this water.

Stored rain water may be used for watering gardens, agriculture, flushing toilets, for washing machines, both laundry and dishwashing, washing cars, and also for drinking, especially when other water supplies are unavailable, expensive, or of poor quality, and that adequate care is taken that the water is not contaminated or the water is adequately filtered.
Submerged ground rainwater tanks may also be used for retention of storm-water (water from roof and paved areas) for release at a later time, though this is not suitable for use in the home. Conventional rain water ranks are not designed simply to put underground and backfilled with soil. These will collapse and may pop out of the ground if empty. Special underground tanks are built, but are very expensive otherwise a special room may be built with a concrete floor and roof with brick walls, all of which possibly make underground tanks unviable, but if this is the only source of water may this be necessary.

Water tanks may have a high (perceived) initial cost. However, many homes use small scale rainwater tanks to harvest relatively small quantities of water for landscaping/gardening applications rather than as a potable (drinkable) water surrogate. While all need to be to screen out mosquitoes, the lack of proper filtering or closed loop systems will create breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. An example of the screening process I with the Water Rhapsody Rain Runner, which filters harvested rainwater near the gutter, and this water may then enter an underground pipe to reach a remote rainwater tank.