Rainwater harvesting has become the ‘next best thing’ when it comes to saving our valuable water supplies. Various techniques are available to make the collection of water possible for use within the home or commercial/public buildings. The pay off in terms of cost and water savings is clearly evidenced by those companies providing these techniques. However, when you look carefully at the projects where rainwater harvesting has been introduced it is rarely used beyond that which is necessary for running washing machines, flushing toilets and watering the garden.
With large scale industry now being encouraged to invest in rainwater harvesting the process becomes a completely different prospect. Industry is doing its best to embrace this concept but in reality, for it to have any effect whatsoever, what they are being asked to do is basically what our national utility companies have being doing, and investing