permaculture

["Mike Barnett" <dreadlox@cwjamaica.com>]

There is a e-conference that was earlier this year that dealt with EVERY
aspect of what you ask...

Try getting some of the reports there....


Mike Barnett
Eco-designer
JAMAICA


Dear Members

The e-Conference Rain in the City: Catch It is due to run from 17 February
to 12 March 2003.

In advance of this, the conference background paper and introduction to
theme 1, are now available. To see them, please go to:

Background Paper http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/RWH/
(copy the whole URL into your web browser), and click on the Word file 'Rain
in the City Background Paper' [23K]

Introduction to Theme 1 http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/RWH/
(copy the whole URL into your web browser), and click on the Word file
'Introduction to Theme 1' [30K]

If you would like to receive a copy of either or both as an email
attachment, please email me at f.o.odhiambo@lboro.ac.uk and I will be happy
to send these to you.

Can I just remind you that the two discussion themes are:

Theme 1: Is rainwater harvesting an option for urban environments?[17th -
28th February, 2003]

Theme 2: How do we 'mainstream' rainwater harvesting? [3rd - 12th March,
2003]

Looking forward to a successful conference.

With best wishes.

Frank Odhiambo
Rain in the City and RWH Moderator

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Frank Odhiambo, MSc, PhD
Assistant Programme Manager
Knowledge Management Group
Water, Engineering and Development Centre
Loughborough University, Loughborough
LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1509 222 393
Fax: +44 1509 211 079
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Scotti" <antonio.scotti@tiscali.es>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:41 AM
Subject: [permaculture] Rain water safe to drink in ureban areas?


Hi,
I often read about rain water being the safest source of drinkable water now
available
in comparison with municipal water, treated as we all know with many
chemicals, clorine
being the number 1 used.
I wander whether rain water collected in urban and/or periurban areas is
really a safe option
to consider, taking into account that the area around big urban centers IS
quite polluted.
Any experiences/data available in this respect?

Also I have heard that after one hour raining  the remaining collected water
can be consiered safe to drink.
Is that true?

What strategies/devices can be used in order to separate this "first hour"
of rainfall from the supposedly good one?

Cheers
Antonio



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