Rainwater Harvesting in Apartments

With the boom in the housing sector, apartments are mushrooming all over the city of Cochin. As a result a huge demand is placed on the infrastructure of the city for water, sewerage, storm water drains or roads. Apartments can supply supplementary water requirement, manage floods and reduce pollution of the environment by designing innovative systems and work towards sustainable technologies.

The ideal catchments for rainwater are rooftops. If they are kept clean and arrangements are made to allow rainwater to runoff to down pipes a lot of water can be collected. The rainwater is brought by the down pipes to the storm water drains. It is best to separate them from sewage and grey water lines. It is recommended by the National Building Code that the rain water pipes be separate from other waste water pipes and thus prevent overflowing man holes and overload of the sewage treatment plants. Faulty designs in apartments may tend to merge the two. Special care is taken by builders Cochin to design proper rain water harvesting for their apartments.

The rain water is brought down by the down pipes to large rain barrels of 10,000 liter capacity in the basement. The rainwater thus harvested is used for car washing, gardening and other non-potable use. The storm water drainage network should be cleaned regularly to ensure that a substantial amount of storm water also becomes harvestable and can be stored or be recharged into the aquifer.

Smart designs and rain water harvesting can help apartments to supplement their water requirement and increase the life of their bore wells. This can also avoid urban floods.

that was a fantastic read

lol wtf is this? no mods? since when? i though one of you guys were one....

I went over to toyotanation and saw a cat fight between members, mod came in and locked thread. Augh, i miss mods. Lets vote on one? All vote for Russian? Free vodka?

True, because then the argument just starts in another thread instead of staying in one place. Though it would be nice to have a mod to ban people that clearly have no place being here.

Topic creator should have the power to close ones own thread..

I'm present, I just didn't see this.

Left up for the educational value, hyperlink removed.
Added: Oct 6, 2011 at 4:45 PM
Unlike the mods on Toyotanation, tundrasolutions, and half a dozen other forums out there. We have better things to do than hover in every forum for 12 hours a day, to lock stuff, and delete it the second it pops up.
Added: Oct 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Ie: "F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 OH SHIT SPAM DELETE F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 NOT IN MY FORUM F5 F5 F5 F5 F5."

If you dont have the time to do it, then find someone who does.

We should have a more active mod though...
Don't care who it is but I do know a lot about forum software

Your so setting yourself up for that. lol.

I really don't care.
I have modded forums before, took a web design and programming class and work at a computer store so... you know I'm fit for the job lol

but I guess if the job went to someone who's been here the longest it'd be hondaboyh2O

Is that really gonna be my new name? I think ive been here the longest only because everyone else that was here longer than me has already evacuated the dance floor except the people that occasionally stop by from time to time. Im a frequent visitor though lol.

looks like hes never gonna live the new name down haha

No no no, i dont like it at all. The only "boy" in here is suvman. aka mackman - man.

Damn you got me beat i was a member in 08

I think he means the old school rwd ones.

I don't have the power to give people mod rights, otherwise I would. Though, this forum doesn't really need moderating. One spam post in I can't count how many months, lol.

Yeah agreed ^^. They probably only made an accoutn to ask a question and when it was answered they never came back. Delete all the 10> post users.