Rainwater Harvesting – Simply Common Sense

For many years, Wilo has been at  the forefront of the development  of leading edge systems to  harvest rainwater and reduce the  use of potable water where  expensively cleaned water is not  really required.  Water conservation has always  been a higher priority in mainland  Europe, than it has been here in  the UK, where we have always  thought – with some justification  and particularly in Northern  Ireland – that we get more than  our fair share of rain each year.  But with climate change, both the  amount of rain we get at one time  and the regularity with which we  get it, is clearly changing, and  rainwater harvesting has become  a simple matter of common  sense.  Water saving goes hand in hand  with energy saving, sustainability  and reducing carbon emissions –  all key elements of Wilo’s  environmental policy.  Wilo has recently been  responsible for the impressive  rainwater harvesting system at  Belfast Metropolitan College –  part of the excellent Titanic  Quarter development in Belfast –  through systems for new social  housing and new private housing  developments, to individual  properties, including a number of  self-build projects across the  country.  Wilo rainwater harvesting  systems harvest the rainwater  that falls on roofs, makes its way  through rainwater systems and  fine mesh filters, into a tank,  usually underground, and then  pump it from that tank to be used  in a number of non-potable  applications. This can reduce the  demand on the potable water  supply provided by the water  companies significantly, it can  reduce water costs – particularly  if you have a metered water  supply of course – and can show  a significant reduction in the  volume of ‘clean’ water used.

Full details of Wilo’s rainwater  harvesting options can be  found at www.wilo.co.uk.