Rainwater harvesting

Making clever use of rainwater

With a rainwater harvesting system you can save up to 50 Percent of your daily fresh water consumption. This can be up to 70 litres per person per day (considering using the toilet, washing machine, garden watering and car washing). Given the increasingly expensive and complicated treatment of drinking water, the projected doubling of water prices in the coming years is only logical. So a rainwater harvesting system makes sense in two ways: it relieves and protects not only our environment, but also your finances in the long-term.

Saving on drinking water

Drinking water is scarce and expensive. In Germany the average person uses about 130 litres of drinking water per day. Half could easily be replaced by rainwater – in a four-member household that is about 90,000 litres a year. Those who use rainwater save drinking water, protect the environment, reduce the load on the public sewer system and thus also on their own pockets. This is because many city and local authorities promote the use of rainwater through grants or have a split wastewater charge.