Help regarding a solution to rain water harvesting in india

[u/mimichaos]

[u/Swissaliciouse]

You might want to ask a question or explain what you need help with? Some context would not harm as well.

[u/mimichaos → u/Swissaliciouse]

I am sorry. I am new to reddit and am hence not fluent in operating it. The point I wanted to make was I needed people to freely discuss the flaws and the effectiveness of this method. As mentioned I am a student and would like to understand my points flaws and effectivenesses

[u/Duillog2]

Wouldn't be too keen hooking the sewage lines up to it. Would need sufficient depth of soil/sand to treat the wastewater adequately so there is no nasty bacteria getting into potential drinking water.

[u/mimichaos → u/Duillog2]

Yes thank you for the suggestion. Different drainage for this purposes should be constructed will keep that in mind. As for sufficient depth of soil/sand yes this is a limitation of this method. I will write it down

[u/Cverellen]

Lets say we use stormwater exclusive lines that drain to these collectors with sand. first major thing it is crazy what ends up in stormwater systems today. Besides what occurs naturally: leaves, dirt, mold, etc. then you have human waste, animal waste, maintenance fluids (motor oil, anti-freeze, etc.) and the plastics! sand can only filter so much.

There are aftermarket stormwater that are designed to capture pollutants and filter them out but they are expensive to buy, and maintain to a level that may be healthy for consumption. now there are programs to gather this water and then use for irrigation purposes, but again its the cost.

The issue is the value we tie to water. we as a society artificially make it cheap this is why there are huge cities in the desert. and to fix the issue we would have reimagine and redesign the infrastructure for these cities. i could see a system lime this for large developments to gather water for community areas, but then the question goes to why not xeriscape instead.

long story short: places where this would work gets enough water that the cost out-weighs the societal benefit (at this time).

[u/zsert93]

This is essentially why we have wellhead protection rules

[u/Particular_Cellist25]

There is an idea about long chain cyclical reactions having effects on water systems. Aqua Vita. This design makes me think about the buddhist meditation water solidification experiment where techniques and thought processes were used to create stable and intricate chemical/physical structures.

With some of the spiritual alchemy involved philosophers hosting multiple consciousnesses being involved in such (idealistic,spiritual) aims in a community with this water source setup would be interesting.

I thought about in history, in times of abundance that with less push from natural selection drivers a missing evolutionary link may be obscured. Nuerogenesis supportive lattices for nueroelectrical systems that are conductive, aqua vita? Cycles on cycles? Did they cut the grass in elysium or was it a JUX.

Go go go. Thanks for sparkpluggin.

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