Rainwater 2005

Rainwater is often cleaner then anything else out there. It can also come in the form of snow, sleet or even hail. The purpose is not to let it run off into our storm sewers where it is often wasted or contaminated but to use it for our homes and gardens. The key is storage.

Speaking of which did you hear about the bill the senator Paull Shin is trying to get passed? Requirement that anyone who collects rain water in rain barrels or cisterns has to have a government permit. Its preparation for the government to try to become 'god' in my humble opinion. Here is a link for more info on this. http://www.washingtonvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=31223

December 2005

Quench the thirst
Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt
... But in many cases, water contamination is not a result of flaws in the public system, but can be traced to water storage tanks, which residents fail to ...

Community plea for water storage
The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton,New Zealand
A community plea for time to investigate water storage in the Ashburton District will be sent to Environment Canterbury for inclusion in its Natural Resources ...

Water storage vital for Mid Canterbury
The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton,New Zealand
By Linda Clarke. Water storage is the long-term answer to Mid Canterbury's water worries, says Environment Canterbury councillor Angus McKay. ...

Shaler to increase water storage capacity
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Philip A. Stephenson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Shaler officials will use a $3.35 million loan to solve a storage shortfall in ...

New water storage projects - OMAN
MENAFN - Middle East
... of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources will inaugurate in Jabal Al Akhdhar on Tuesday the second phase of water storage facilities project ...

Think tank on water storage
Tuncarry Great Lakes Advocate - Forster-Tuncarry,New South Wales,Australia
THE issue of whether or not installation of domestic rainwater tanks should require development applications was raised in late business at the November ...

Builders fight rules on rainwater runoff
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
OLYMPIA -- Calling new state regulations on polluted rainwater runoff at construction sites too difficult and expensive to comply with, the Building Industry ...

Wall, developer settle suit over downspouts
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
WALL -- The township has 8settled a lawsuit with the developer of a 460-unit housing community over improperly connected rainwater downspouts. ...

Collecting Rainwater for a Healthier Community: Sri Lanka
Christian Children's Fund - Richmond,VA,USA
Collecting rainwater is an age-old tradition, making access to safe drinking water a reality for families living in arid regions worldwide. ...

Harvest rainwater - SA is told
News24 - South Africa
Nelspruit - Harvesting rainwater may be a better option to damming rivers to solve South Africa's water problems , says Philip Owen, an environmentalist at ...

Reclaim Your Rain: Rain Garden Workshop in Gwinnett
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA
... a nice garden and save the money you would have spent on water to keep your landscape green. Rain gardens work by capturing run-off from your roof or drive way ...

Rainwater re-use system
Ferret - Australia
... Often dual pumpsets are used to offer redundancy. However, the Kelair-RRS range features a robust industrial -rated solution for rainwater re-use. ...

Acropolis foundations threatened by seeping rainwater
Middle East Times - Cairo,Egypt
ATHENS -- Greek archaeologists worry that the foundations of the Acropolis monument are threatened by rainwater that has seeped into the soil of the ancient

Sewage, rainwater target of treatment proposal
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... Plant operators say the sewage will be diluted with rainwater and blended with fully treated sewage and won't harm people. Health experts disagree. ...

Poisonous Rainwater
ABC Regional Online - Australia
... But it seems an increasing number of us are falling ill and the rainwater tank has been copping all the blame. Noel Heale is a water ...

Rainwater harvesting can help India overcome water scarcity ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Simple rainwater harvesting techniques can help avert a water scarcity disaster and provide potable water to India, according to experts from the International ...

Farmers get continued drought aid
ABC Online - Australia
There is some good news for drought affected farmers in three states in the lead-up to Christmas. In Queensland, an unprecedented ...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Drought may have shaped history
Ancient sediments from African lakes reveal a major drought occurred at a key
time in human evolution.

'Water infrastructure essential for economic growth'
Engineering News - Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa
... under pressure due to the current lack of rain in Southern Africa. There is a lack of general infrastructure around water provision and storage capacity on the ...

Relief measures taken for drought stricken Cholistan
Pakistan Link - Inglewood,CA,USA
... PCRWR). The major components of the project are Rainwater ponds, filter plants, Reverse Osmosis plants and installation of turbines.

Dairies get $10 million to improve water quality on farms
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
... The grants will help farmers pay for things like structures to keep rainwater from running over manure or for technology to better gauge how much manure can be ..

Frick Park entrance to get makeover
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
An international team of designers, architects, engineers and artists hopes to change that by using rainwater, native plants and natural features to create a ...

Antioch, Ephesus, America
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... Just as American technology is improving and our ethics probably regressing, so ... Roman satirist Juvenal wrote that Antioch "has poured its sewage into our .

SATELLITES guide aid workers sinking water wells for African ... European Space Agency (ESA) - World ... In March UNHCR requested UNOSAT assist with locating hidden water resources and ... "And multi-temporal radar imagery can highlight underground humidity anomalies

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November 2005

Drought hits Shaoyang in Hunan
China Daily - China
Due to a four-month long ravage of Autumn drought, six big wells, the main sources of drinking water for more than 1,000 villagers of Dahu and Wenchong villages ...

Drought Watch
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... National Weather Service. Drought Watch is a regular feature with facts, figures and tips for conserving water until the rains come.

Rain brings some relief to drought-declared stations
ABC Online - Australia
Recent rains in central Australia have brought relief to some of the region's 52 drought-declared cattle stations. But while the ...

'Mass suffering' looms over drought-hit Kenya, says UN agency ...
UN News Centre
... food shortages. "We need donations now if food is to reach these people in time to avoid mass suffering because of drought. This ...

October rainfall brings partial relief to drought in Spain
Typically Spanish - Malaga,Spain
The widespread rain in Spain during October has eased the drought conditions in some areas of the country with the national average for reservoir levels now .

Drought looms for farmers
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... He described himself as obsessed with water storage. ... Marlborough District Council hydrologist Val Wadsworth said patchy rain over the past few days had eased ...

Illinois drought losses less than expected
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
Federal officials say the drought that gripped Illinois for most of the summer didn't hit farmers as hard as expected. The US Department ...

Drought hits eight provinces hard
Business Day - Johannesburg,South Africa
PRETORIA -- Eight of SA's nine provinces are affected severely by drought, the agriculture department said yesterday. Hardest ...

Rainswept tales
International Herald Tribune - France
... built by governments, private landowners or communities to collect the rain water for ... Their aggregate storage capacity is 15-20 billion cubic metres, which is

Hands on the levers, Colorado River controllers go with the flow
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The goal is to meet water orders and maximize storage on the river so no ... Last month, for example, a storm system dumped rain on Las Vegas and soaked farms and ...

Villagers write two success stories with rainwater
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
... Mandhala village in Himachal's Solan district has started scripting another success story with an integrated land and rainwater management project started by ...

(First of two parts)
Global Nation - Manila,Philippines
... For example, rainwater falling on the ground should be allowed to recharge aquifers and natural waterways without deteriorating their quality or quantity. ...

Date of Source:
OSEN News - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... its conclusion is that future global warming will reduce glaciers and storage packs of ... a warming climate more water will fall in the form of rain rather than ...

Consultants unveil plan for reviving sewer system
Olean Times Herald - Olean,NY,USA
... basin. The storage basin would give plant workers a place to store the bacteria used in the treatment process during heavy rain. ...

Green Building Breakthrough: Portland Engineering Firm Shows Path ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... resources provided by nature: harvesting rainwater that falls on the building for reuse in toilets and landscaping, allowing ample daylight and capturing the ...

Students vow to spread awarness on rainwater harvesting
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
The six-member delegation of students from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan, at Unicef's Children's session at 12th International Rainwater Catchment Systems ...

Caribbean countries to pursue rainwater harvesting as water supply ...
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
... Health Institute (CEHI) has teamed up with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on an initiative to promote the use of rainwater harvesting (RWH). ...

Water table up, thanks to rain
Hindu - Chennai,India
... In sandy areas such as Tiruvanmiyur, Adyar, Santhome, George Town and the rest of coastal Chennai, rainwater run-off percolates very quickly. ...

Idea: stop flushing millions of dollars down the toilet
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... All toilets should be retrofitted with dual-flush options and rainwater tanks should be installed in backyards to save billions of litres of water a year. ...

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September 2005

Opposition pours cold water on rainwater tank plan
ABC Regional Online - Australia
Environment Minister John Hill says rainwater tanks can have a far reaching impact. "It will need to be plumbed into either the toilet ... ...

Rainwater Tanks Represent Health and Hope for 100,000 Families
Inter Press Service (subscription) - World
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 12 (IPS) - Rainwater collection tanks have already made clean drinking water available to more than 100,000 families in Brazil, and the ...

Water Quality Campaign Takes on Rainwater and Downspouts
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... water quality campaign, the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and local government partners are promoting ways that citizens can use rainwater to help keep ...

Sops for buildings with rainwater harvesting
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
... subsidy of Rs 1,000 will be offered by the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) to owners of old buildings who come forward to adopt rainwater harvesting measures ...

Rainwater relief for builders
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Jamshedpur, Sept. 9: Builders of the steel city can look forward to combat the receding water level by adopting some simple methods of rainwater harvesting. ...

County agrees to fix rainwater runoff from McNeilus plant
Austin Herald - Austin,MN,USA
By Lee Bonorden/Austin Daily Herald. There's never a dull moment; particularly in District No. 2 represented by Ray Tucker, Dexter ...

Rainwater Harvesting and Percolation Pit Demonstration
konkaniworld - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Mulky : The training on Rainwater Harvesting and Percolation Pit Demonstration was jointly organized by Catholic Sabha Mulky Unit, Samanvaya Mangalore, Rotary ...

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January 2005

MMSD seizing on positive report about it
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... The coffee shop site includes a rain garden along with barrels to capture rain from downspouts and porous parking lot surfaces that allow rain to soak in ...

Pond Plan Sinks Family Home in Florida
RisMedia.com - Norwalk,CT,USA
... the Harrisons' house included a provision directing county staffers to simultaneously look into an alternative to a retention pond called a "rain garden" as a ...

Harvesting Roof Water-There are several types and styles of tanks including steel or plastic. Tasmania

Rainharvesting Systems - water conservation, recycling and reuse... Rainwater harvesting systems posterWe have supplied rainwater harvesting systems for all types of buildings from garden sheds and houses to office buildings ...

Water conservation Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
... The house has three compact rainwater tanks in the backyard which can store nine thousand litres of rainwater collected from the roof. ...

Water Systems-How much water do you use and how much water can you harvest from rain that falls each year. Excellent resource.

~~~Taps could run dry by June, says expert
Helderberg.com - Helderberg,Western Cape,South Africa
A reliable source, who keeps water storage charts in the Helderberg, has predicted that the city may run out of water by mid-June if the current water ...

Concern over Indian power project on River Neelum: Pakistan to ...
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 26: The Indian move to build a water storage and power generation facility on River Neelum in occupied Kashmir in violation of the Indus Waters ...

Scant snowfall, warm weather may spell drought for Central Oregon
kgw.com (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
After a season of scant snowfall and a recent spate of warm days, experts say Central Oregon could be on track for the worst drought in more than a decade. ...

Drought, Drought, Let It All Out
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
The proportion of the planet's land area suffering from drought has more than doubled since the 1970s, to about 30 percent, according to a recent study by the ..

Underground drilling hopes to avert water shortage in Ivanhoe
Cobar Age - Cobar,New South Wales,Australia
... of almost continuous drought, the small Central Darling township of Ivanhoe is running out of water and residents hope an urgent underground drilling program .

Reservoirs full but spring rain needed
Point Reyes Light - Inverness,CA,USA
... Marin Municipal Water District, which supplies the San Geronimo Valley, is running 31 percent above its average untreated water storage capacity for this time ...

Officials hope to tap recycled water this summer
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... at the city's 54 million-gallon Mahr Reservoir near Melrose Drive at Rancho Santa Fe Road to make it usable as a recycled water storage facility, he said. ...

India-Pakistan Talks on Baglihar dam End in Failure
Pakistan Times - Pakistan
... ways and possibilities to reach an understanding and remove differences identified by Pakistan relating to the basic design and level of water storage of the ...

Water woes still plague Bombala Shire
ABC Regional Online - Australia
Bombala Mayor Bob Stewart says the shire's water treatment plant is not adequately coping with a build-up of organic matter in the water storage area. ...

Dire need for drinking water
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... relief workers will have to simultaneously deliver water and rehydration liquids, technology to purify more water, and equipment to fix sewage, sanitation and ...

Water Crisis Leads to Starvation in Kenya
NPR (audio) - Washington,D.C.,USA
... The owners are making the most of living in a water-stressed country by relying on a water storage facility they built behind their fields. ...

Unicef sending emergency items as relief
Chennai Online - India
A Unicef release said here that 2175 water storage tanks of 500 litres capacity has been sent to camps in various places in the state and Pondicherry. ...

Aid begins to flow for the tsunami victims
Times of India - Mumbai,India
... About 2,175 water storage tanks of 500 litres capacity each have been given to relief camps in Chengalpattu, Thirukalundram, Vilipuram, Kanyakumari ...

Dept promises continued water licence crackdown
ABC Online - Australia
... industry. "We've only this year come out of a three-year drought - the longest drought that we've known for the river," he said. ...

Southern central provinces affected by serious drought
Viet Nam News Agency - Hanoi,Vietnam
Ha Noi, Dec. 30 (VNA) - Many southern central provinces from Phu Yen to Binh Thuan have been affected by serious drought since April this year. ...

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Welcome to Rainwater Archives for 2005.

We know that rain continues to be a major source of help to farmers, cities, reservoirs across provinces, states and countries. Learning to store water for our everyday use will help keep the shortages to a minimum.

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New fire and EMS station passes environmental muster
Updated: 11/20/2005 11:10:46 AM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

A new Southwest Austin fire and EMS station is already an award winner. Station 43 is the first fire station in Austin with a rainwater collection system for irrigation.

The design won a Leadership and Environmental Design Certification.

Fire officials say the station, located on Escarpment Blvd. just north of Hwy. 45, provides services to the rapidly growing Circle C Ranch subdivision.

"This station is necessary to provide a standard of coverage to citizens that are in the city, this far south, to meet certain response times," AFD Division Chief Duke Turpin said.

It's the first fire station to meet international guidelines for energy efficiency.

Station 43 is also home to a public art installation. "Karst Circle" by artist W. Gary Smith is a landscaped arrangement of boulders and native plants located within the rainwater collection area.

It's the second new fire station in Travis County with a piece from the city's Art in Public Places. EMS Station 28 in Southeast Travis County features a limestone and marble sculpture called "Medicinal Plant Wall" by local artist Philippe Klinefelter.