Thread: Harvesting rainwater with rain barrels

I heard about this at work today - so I figured I should share. A coworker was actually setting up rain barrels to harvest rain water.
Initially it seemed like a novel but useless idea, until he mentioned that he can get up to 54 gallons of water in a major rain storm. So imagine what this means for not having to spend this money on your garden or lawn. By harvesting his rainwater, he can use that water to water his lawn and garden and it's free.

His setup is to take water runoff from his roof. Now one important thing to note is that we're not talking about getting rain water as drinking water. This water that's collected is not potable at all. But it does work great for your lawn and garden. I haven't heard people saying anything about using it in gardens ( fruits and veggies) - but my suggestion would be to NOT use runoff from your roof for gardens you eat from, but to use straight rainwater from the sky for that.

Wanna read more?: http://www.harvesth2o.com/faq.shtml