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Aloha Punatics! Having lived in Puna off and on since 1988, I realize that water catchment is often regarded here as a necessary evil. On the mainland though and other places with big time water issues, rainwater harvesting is getting a lot of positive interest. The practice is widely used in Australia where my client lives and works part time installing catchment systems and by career in the health professions. I'm helping him with a book on rainwater harvesting.
We have the technical how-to sections completed but would like to add some personal stories/case studies from homeowners, businesses and farmers. If you have a catchment project you wouldn't mind sharing via an email interview (or phone if you prefer), please email me via the forum.
The book will initially be available in e-book format, and later most likely in print.
Free copies and updates will be sent to contributors, and we're happy to include information such as website or blog links.
Mahalos,
Cindy
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contact me about catchment
John Maloney
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John Maloney
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Hawaii Architect AR8082
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http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/RM-12.pdf
http://www.hawaiirain.org/
A bit late to the party. I was talking to an old timer at the checkout Hilo Hattie a few years ago, it was funny to hear her stories.... She told me that she grew up drinking from catchment no filters. Went to bottled water and it tasted so nasty that she went back to drinking from her catchment. Funny stuff. I think just in hawaii alone there is enough free information off the net that there is no need to purchase a book. But there are TONS of books already flooding the market. Just check out amazon. Good Luck!
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When I acquired it, my house had only a sand filter. I went a little wild. It now has a sand filter and three other filters.
I probably need to add a cesium filter. But I love my catchment. Catchment water was one of my unfounded fears about having a house on the island. I was completely obsessed with it, in a negative way.
I am a convert. Independence is good.
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quote:
Originally posted by ericlp
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/RM-12.pdf
I think just in hawaii alone there is enough free information off the net that there is no need to purchase a book. But there are TONS of books already flooding the market. Just check out amazon. Good Luck!
The CTAHR booklet... free .PDF online, free printed copies available at County Extension offices, small charge for ordering by mail... is THE go-to book on the subject. The author, CTAHR researcher Trish McComber, is known the world over. Why pay for a rehash? (Note, once upon a time I saw a used copy listed by an Amazon seller for $40. That was seriously cookoo.)
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always heard warnings about catchment, never any founded...i still drink it.
now working on an offgrid (nonelectric) catchment pump system...coming soon to a homestead near you!
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Keep us posted. When Helco goes off so does my pump and no showers or potty flushing!
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needs catchment and acreage to work, no workee in tightneighbored living.
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blackenuf, we are on catchment. Solar panels cant go on roof?
