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I'm not sure why it's only happening in Peru, we should be doing this work world wide. I have similar water capturing techniques at my house where I redirect r

by foxhop 5y ago

I'm not sure why it's only happening in Peru, we should be doing this work world wide. I have similar water capturing techniques at my house where I redirect road runoff into a gentle stream and allow it to infiltrate my landscape, watering Maple, Apple, Plums trees, hydrating the landscape to reduce effects of multi-month droughts: Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQS4CN_4OY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQS4CN_4OY

kjkjadksj 5y ago
Road runoff is usually pretty polluted in cities and some places have laws against capturing rainwater to protect downstream resources.
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  He doesn't say where he lives. While I agree with you that if he indeed lives in a place where the "road runoff" is nasty he should be careful, I really can't see why capturing rainwater should be banned. Of course "some places" is very vague so there might be good reasons but you'd have to provide much more context for me to believe that it's a good idea to prevent it. If my house wasn't where it is, the ground on which it is built would absorb that water. Now I capture it and put it on my veggies or use it to flush the toilet which ends up going out to the septic drain field on the lwab and then it filters further down. I don't see any issues with that.
  - kjkjadksj 5y ago
    The issues with water capture is that you are basically building an illegal reservoir and not necessarily returning the water as it were if it just hit the ground. You might flush your toilet and think all is fine, but maybe now the creek in your back yard goes dry a week sooner in the year, and less tadpoles are able to be born or some other unforseen ecological effect. Or maybe downstream water users don’t get what they expect out of the watershed anymore due to illegal collecting.

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I'm not sure why it's only happening in Peru, we should be doing this work world wide. I have similar water capturing techniques at my house where I redirect r

by foxhop 5y ago

kjkjadksj 5y ago
Road runoff is usually pretty polluted in cities and some places have laws against capturing rainwater to protect downstream resources.
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  He doesn't say where he lives. While I agree with you that if he indeed lives in a place where the "road runoff" is nasty he should be careful, I really can't see why capturing rainwater should be banned. Of course "some places" is very vague so there might be good reasons but you'd have to provide much more context for me to believe that it's a good idea to prevent it. If my house wasn't where it is, the ground on which it is built would absorb that water. Now I capture it and put it on my veggies or use it to flush the toilet which ends up going out to the septic drain field on the lwab and then it filters further down. I don't see any issues with that.
  - kjkjadksj 5y ago
    The issues with water capture is that you are basically building an illegal reservoir and not necessarily returning the water as it were if it just hit the ground. You might flush your toilet and think all is fine, but maybe now the creek in your back yard goes dry a week sooner in the year, and less tadpoles are able to be born or some other unforseen ecological effect. Or maybe downstream water users don’t get what they expect out of the watershed anymore due to illegal collecting.