permaculture

["Rich Blaha" <rich@mossbackfarm.com>]

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.
>