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Flooding issues – would rainwater harvesting help?
Over the last few month (as those of you in the UK will know) we have experienced the wettest start to a summer since records began nearly 300 years ago. As a result places like Hull, Tewkesbury, Gloucester and Oxford have experience extreme flooding and in the case of some towns they have lost fresh water supply due to the water treatment facilities being flooded.
As a keen environmentalist this got me thinking about whether rainwater harvesting may have gone some way to help. Freerain, a supplier of rainwater harvesting systems in the UK, seem to supply domestic tanks from 3,500 to 6,500 litres in capacity and commercial systems which I can only assume have larger tanks. Systems like this would not only take rainwater out of the mains drainage system but would also provide you with water in your house even when the mains water was not available. I appreciate such systems are unlikely to have prevented the flooding, but it would be interesting to know what the impact of installing such systems would have been on the flooding or would be in future flooding situations. Definitely one to consider for the Environment Agency.