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  • From: "Rich Blaha" <rich@mossbackfarm.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] rainwater collection
  • Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:38:29 -0800

I'm not an economist, but I think a 5 year payback time comes out to a 14.4%
return on investment...pretty good for a capital expenditure that will
continue to serve you long after that.

Hard to put up the money up front, though....

Cheers

Rich
Mossback Farm
www.mossbackfarm.com/journal
Yamhill, OR



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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:10:21 +0000
> From: "Charles de Matas" <cdematas@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] rainwater collection
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
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> <<The bottom line is that such an approach will takesome 5 years for me to
> recoup my costs. which strikes me as quite a long time
>
> Any thoughts from anybody out there who faced similar dillemmas>>
>
> What about the cost of connection to the public water supply? Have you
> considered that?
> I live on the caribbean island of Trinidad. I built a very small house last
> year. We have lots of rain during the rainly season but the dry season
> lasts about 4 months. I reckon I can collect about 40 cu m. from my roof.
> For me to connect to the public water supply would cost a lot, since I
> would have to run pipes for several hundred metres. Besides the public
> water supply here is often unreliable during the dry season, when it's
> needed most, and most people still have water tanks in the backyards. It
> would be much cheaper for me to collect rainwater. I won't need much water.
> I will use a humanure composting system instead of a flush toilet and use
> greywater to water plants.
>
> Charles.
> Trinidad.
>




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