Comments on: Rainwater Harvesting: A beginners guide. http://azsustainability.com/2008/05/07/rainwater-harvesting-a-beginners-guide/ Arizona Sustainability, Green Blog, Community Forum, Environmental Action. Thu, 17 May 2012 01:22:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: luke graven http://azsustainability.com/2008/05/07/rainwater-harvesting-a-beginners-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-166 luke graven Mon, 12 May 2008 05:38:38 +0000 http://azsustainably.com/?p=156#comment-166 Hey, I'm starting a Property Development company in N. AZ where the homes will be GAP: Green as Possible. Just wanted to say articles like this help push me to be more green! oh yeah...a little history History Cisterns are actually an ancient technology. In the Middle East in 2000 B.C., typical middle class dwellings stored rain water in cisterns, for use as a domestic supply and private bathing facilities for the wealthy. Probably the world's largest cistern is the Yerebatan Sarayi. On the European side of Istanbul in Turkey, it was constructed under Caesar Justinian (A.D. 527-565) and measures 140 by 70 metres. It can store 80,000 m³ water. The underground structure is based on intersecting vaults. Today it’s a tourist attraction which is visited by boat, drifting through a forest of columns. Another cistern in Istanbul is called Binbirdik , thought by some sources to have been constructed under Caesar Constantine (A.D. 329 - 337), with a capacity of 50,000 m³. Each cistern served as centralized storage for water collected from roofs and paved streets and featured a sophisticated system of filters that assured clean water. Hey,

I’m starting a Property Development company in N. AZ where the homes will be GAP: Green as Possible.

Just wanted to say articles like this help push me to be more green!

oh yeah…a little history
History

Cisterns are actually an ancient technology. In the Middle East in 2000 B.C., typical middle class dwellings stored rain water in cisterns, for use as a domestic supply and private bathing facilities for the wealthy.

Probably the world’s largest cistern is the Yerebatan Sarayi. On the European side of Istanbul in Turkey, it was constructed under Caesar Justinian (A.D. 527-565) and measures 140 by 70 metres. It can store 80,000 m³ water. The underground structure is based on intersecting vaults. Today it’s a tourist attraction which is visited by boat, drifting through a forest of columns. Another cistern in Istanbul is called Binbirdik , thought by some sources to have been constructed under Caesar Constantine (A.D. 329 – 337), with a capacity of 50,000 m³. Each cistern served as centralized storage for water collected from roofs and paved streets and featured a sophisticated system of filters that assured clean water.

]]> By: Tracy http://azsustainability.com/2008/05/07/rainwater-harvesting-a-beginners-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Tracy Thu, 08 May 2008 00:23:35 +0000 http://azsustainably.com/?p=156#comment-145 I am so excited about this! James got this minor change done in less than a half hour and it really did hold quite a bit more water than it did with the previous berm. It didn't seem intuitive to me at first but now it is a no-brainer, water always flows downhill! I look forward to seeing more implementation of what you learned at the conference and hearing about your plans here. Isn't it amazing how well engineered we are to waste? I wasn't sure about this at first since all of the storm sewers in Phoenix lead to the Salt River. This contributes greatly to its pollution but it also provides much needed water to the struggling riparian habitat there. While the river needs all of the water it can get James rightly pointed out to me earlier that if we were not using so much water from the tap and were making better use of what falls in our area there would be less of an issue with water in the river in the first place. I can't wait to get a gray water system. :c) I am glad you are talking about this here, excellent post! I am so excited about this! James got this minor change done in less than a half hour and it really did hold quite a bit more water than it did with the previous berm. It didn’t seem intuitive to me at first but now it is a no-brainer, water always flows downhill! I look forward to seeing more implementation of what you learned at the conference and hearing about your plans here.

Isn’t it amazing how well engineered we are to waste? I wasn’t sure about this at first since all of the storm sewers in Phoenix lead to the Salt River. This contributes greatly to its pollution but it also provides much needed water to the struggling riparian habitat there. While the river needs all of the water it can get James rightly pointed out to me earlier that if we were not using so much water from the tap and were making better use of what falls in our area there would be less of an issue with water in the river in the first place.

I can’t wait to get a gray water system. :c) I am glad you are talking about this here, excellent post!

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