Rain catchment?

[Victor VonDoom]

Anyone use any form of rain catchment system in or around the house?  For interior or irrigation purposes?  Bah!

[Novena]

Do you have Air Conditioning?   A central air conditioning system in Houston will fill that barrel with water in a single day.

[Victor VonDoom]

Do you have Air Conditioning?   A central air conditioning system in Houston will fill that barrel with water in a single day.

The a/c system currently in use does not produce much water that can be captured.  I am interested in a relatively simple rain catcher to store 50-100 gallons of water.  If it is portable even better; the various bigger modular systems, like the one pictured is interesting but does not meet the current need.  Bah!

[Novena]

Rain capture systems by nature are not portable.  You need a roof and gutter system to gather the water from a wide area.  Think of it as a huge funnel.

[Skeeter]

I have two rain barrels that collect water from my house similar to the one in the picture. I also want to add a third for my garage.

[Victor VonDoom]

Taking delivery of my first barrel this weekend... and will set it up.  Will probably buy a couple more once I get the first one installed.

One never hears much about rain catchment in places like California.  With all the talk of heavy rains from the coming El Nino elaborate versions of this stuff should be the norm out there.  A few years ago, catchment systems became very popular in Atlanta and surrounding cities as Georgia was going through a drought, but it seems to have fallen off the radar since then.  

There are lots of rain catchment vids on youtube.  Bah!

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[ritch]

Nonsense.
I fill the tub with bottles of avian water!