‘Water Scarcity’, the most commonly heard complaint all over the world, especially the developing countries where people struggle to get water even for drinking. The governments of all these countries have introduced ideas like rain water harvesting to make this problem a little easier, but these projects didn’t click- blame corruption or cost, people are the sufferers.

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Conserving water is everyone’s duty. If you belong to those areas of the world where, rainwater harvesting is the premium source of water-supply through out the year then, conserving every single droplet is mandatory. The good thing is now-a-days a number of water features are available. The ones offered by H20 Designs are the ultimate environmentally friendly, modern and stylish systems. Normally, the harvesting process requires a system which collects rain falling on the building’s roof and collects it into an underground tank via connecting pipes. The water thus collected is cleansed through a filter and then consumed. However, this is the run-of-the mill kind of system. H20 Designs’ water features are no less than oriental Zen-gardens thus providing you a sense of immense calm in the environs of your house.

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With these at your place, you don’t need to go to nearby park for your meditation sessions. These features recycle water in compliance with water restriction regulations. They require minimal maintenance and are flexible enough to be integrated into any other water feature. The added greenery as I said earlier, transforms your outdoors in to a mini heaven.

For the optimum functioning of these features till an extended time frame ,H20 Designs provide you with a hidden water storage unit which does not taps into external water supplies! Well, I bet it’s a good investment-one for not only your current needs but also, for those of the future.

Via: trendir

In times of water scarcity, every drop is precious. While some people & institutions realize this fact others still go on living in their ignoramus style.

Belonging to the former category is the High School in Arlington (Virginia) along with its Langston Brown Community Center which has set a fine example of green concept (to the world) in terms of rainwater harvesting efforts. The building has a LEED Silver rating for its interesting green features, which are:
• Presence of two 11,000-gallon water tanks (one being on the roof of the building) that store about 280,000 gallons of rainwater per year!
• The water so harvested is used for sidewalk washing, onsite irrigation and such uses.
• Presence of waterless urinals- contributes to the project’s 23% reduction in potable water use.
• Each classroom provides a minimum of 4 switches to control lighting levels.
• The high school’s indoors feature use of adhesives, solvents, paints, and carpets with low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
• Presence of Sunshades-these provide indirect daylighting while still being effective in maintaining more than 90% visibility in building’s occupied spaces.
• Clerestory windows are present on third-floor classrooms to provide additional daylighting.

Source: treehugger.com