Rain water Towers , future direction for Dinkable water in cities

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Pakistan is generally blessed with water , River Water.
However Pakistan also is blessed with ample Moonsoon rain , and other rain seasons

Pakistan should perhaps look into Rain water natural preservation techniques which can certainly improve the availability of drinkable water across cities and communities

Well planned out water towers in every neighbourhood of cities could trap valuable supply of water

If people can imagine 10,000-20,000 Water towers created across the provinces and cities you can quickly see the impact of "Extra water" available for communities which otherwise would be wasted

The structures which need only basic engineering and cement and other readily available material are all available in Pakistan. Just needs a vision.

How to Trap excess water during rain season , and this water can then we used even in Summer time. Or very least used during times when water supply is low in cities

Similarly individual home owners can also conserve and save rain water by redirecting the water into tanks and portable tanks , this water can then be used for drinking (most of time it is clean) or it can be used to irregate the land / plant life near the homes

Promoting greener societies

Relatively easy to conserve water in society even with a small canister and few simple water channeling techniques in homes

During a simple rain fall you can easily fill 2-3 such canister of free water enough to last for few weeks or months "free water"or you can freely use this water to water the trees and plant life around the community

Next time when you walk in Rain , realize that all that water around you could have been drinkable water or water that could have been used for plant/tree irrigation

 

[war&peace]

Rain water also needs to treated and filtered unlike the underground water table where the water has been filtered by the sand, the rain drops accumulate all the air pollution on their way to the ground i.e. dust particles, VOCs, other chemicals and gases get trapped in it especially over the large and polluted cities thus it needs to be cleaned before use.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Well suprisingly the rain water that we collect from the roof tops is generally clean the sediments norally settles to bottom of the artificial container (or tanker)

Even the water from Rivers we openly drink , has dust particles inside but once you leave that for while the dust particles normally settle down

It is quite easy to use a simple filter system

When you fill such a unit it removes even those tiny strands of dust via filteration

Water Towers have potential to save enough water in them if we implement 10,000-50,000 across cities that we can use the water to turn the cities into GREEN cities


Advantages of Water Towers:

• You don't put extra burden on river water
  
• You don't depend on water from DAM , but what you save is "extra" water
  
• You can use the water freely to irregate plant life in your neighbourhood and it is also quite safe to drink yourself. Rain water is generally more cleaner , might lack in minerals in River water but 100% safe
  
• During season when River water is low you can tap into your saved supply of water saved in Water towers not even depending on the natural spring water wells underground

Even water saved on house to house basis the potential is endless
Where you can redirect the water collected from roof tops into combination of containers
which are lined with each other and save good amount of 100% fresh drinkable water

Here below you can see a simplest of examples of water can be saved which falls on Top of individual's home

So really , two approaches would be Golden for Pakistan

a) Water Towers 10,000-50,000 Units constructed with local labour and implemented in
Pakistan's rain zones for extra Water (Free water)

b) Raising awareness in people to redirect the rain water from roof to stroable contrainers which can be above the surface or under the surface

All it takes it little bit of ingenuity and a simple water tanker to store great amount of water for future use with out burdening the river water

Water Towers offer the same conservation at a much larges scale , which can be used across community (small neighbourhood)

 

[war&peace]

Well suprisingly the rain water that we collect from the roof tops is generally clean the sediments norally settles to bottom of the artificial container (or tanker)

Even the water from Rivers we openly drink , has dust particles inside but once you leave that for while the dust particles normally settle down

It is quite easy to use a simple filter system

When you fill such a unit it removes even those tiny strands of dust via filteration

Water Towers have potential to save enough water in them if we implement 10,000-50,000 across cities that we can use the water to turn the cities into GREEN cities

I think this idea is great but it needs to be thoroughly researched. Dust particles are just one of pollutants and can readily be separated or filtered but what about other contaminants.. so a filtering system should be connected between the tower and supply lines.

In addition to rain water, there is even a better technology that has already been used to collect water from the moisture in the air

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I think this idea is great but it needs to be thoroughly researched. Dust particles are just one of pollutants and can readily be separated or filtered but what about other contaminants.. so a filtering system should be connected between the tower and supply lines.

In addition to rain water, there is even a better technology that has already been used to collect water from the moisture in the air

You know the water Towers are used world wide

Kuwait

Finland

Constructions in Riyadh

Another structure in Finland

Ireland

More modern design

Explans the idea behind Water towers in simplest / cheapest terms

The technology which converts water from Atmosphere as you showed in the shared video I saw that as well it is certainly amazing however it needs certain level of moisture in air , but the draw back is that it is making the air in surrounding areas dry (impacting the system). It works fantastically on small scale

But if you can imagine a deserve / or rugged environment which is already "Dry" and then you suck the remaining moisture out of the atmosphere it will make temperature and heat even more worse for people living in that area "if it is done on large scale"

If scientist can demonstrate that you won't impact weather and air or temperature by mass use of moisture to water converter as shown in video that is also a great tool for emergency



But returning back to Pakistan's case.

I mean we have 2 major rain seasons

a) Moonsoon rain cycle (A general flush across all regions of pakistan)
b) Winter season (Rain & Snow in Northern Parts of Pakistan)


So certainly the whole country does benefits from Rain now you can imagine if we have 10,000-50,000 water towers we can save so much water (for emergency)

And if citizens get habbit of saving rain water in tankers (above ground or under) you can just see the potential of so much water available


Best part
***It can be done 100% by local Engineering

 

[Azadkashmir]

lol just make sure the plastic is bpa free and use water filter/purifer. these things will come handy during war when sanction are applied and trade is reduced and war is eating up resources.

be a survival prepper.

 

[TheNoob]

SO THATS WHAT THEY ARE!

I've seen them alot in my travel but never cared enough to look it up.