Rainwater Harvesting: A Self-Funding Stormwater Utility | The Rain Saver

This proposal will explain how using rainwater harvesting as a Best Management Practice (BMP) to reduce flows during rain events and use the water for non-potable needs. Water captured from storm events can be sold to customers needing non-potable water through the leasing of tanks.

 Components of the Plan Include:

• Tanks can be set up at parks, urban farms and urban gardens for irrigation.
• Tanks can be set up for businesses to supply non-potable water.
• Leased tanks are charged as a flat fee based on cost of the system.
• The utilities  sets up rain tanks they own throughout the city, maintain and sell water to businesses though blue fire hydrants.
• Selling rainwater will generate more revenue then domestic water.
• Stormwater management reducing flooding and stream pollution.
• Training and testing facility for city inspectors, designers and contractors.
• New source of revenue for utilities.
• Public Private Partnerships
• A revenue source for stormwater practices.

By managing rainwater and stormwater efficiently would insure plenty of water for generations. Expanding the reservoir system with the cost of land, new infrastructure, energy use, environmental issues and the loss due to evaporation seems futile. A decentralized system can be implemented within several years instead of the decades it takes to complete a reservoir. With drought conditions forecast through out the world, now is the time to consider implementing this plan.

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