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tl;dr > The steps slow down heavy rainfall helping the gutters to collect the water and store it in a tank under the house. > in the past it was covered in a
by smegsicle 4y ago
tl;dr
> The steps slow down heavy rainfall helping the gutters to collect the water and store it in a tank under the house.
> in the past it was covered in a lime mortar, which had anti-bacterial properties. Now the mortar has been replaced by paint. It's still white, because this reflects ultra-violet light from the sun, which also helps to purify the water.
- senectus1 4y agoa tank under the house. interesting. From the pics they look like they bury them
- jamal-kumar 4y agoAnother interesting trick we do in the tropics: Guppies in the water tank to prevent them from being a source of dengue/zika/chikungunya spreading mosquitoes. I can't understate how much it sucks to get one of these diseases, never have I felt more run over by a truck than when I got dengue once.
- ryanmcbride 4y agoWow that's a really cool solution I had no idea
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoWhat do you do about fish poop and dead fish?
- jamal-kumar 4y agoCarbon filtration and checking a couple of time a week with a headlamp and a net for floating things like dead fish and fish poop. It's mostly used for taking showers and other cleaning. If you want it to be potable it's gotta be boiled or ideally distilled with mineral addition. Water management is an enormously important thing when mosquitoes carry diseases which can kill you so a few little fish in the water tank hardly phases us
- mertd 4y agoFWIW, it really isn't tl. 3 minute read tops.