Advantages of saving rain water with a rainbarrel
Saving rain water by using a rain barrel is a first good initiative to saving the planet.
Rain barrels can go a long way in offsetting your domestic water needs, if you think about it, you don't really need potable water to flush your toilet, cause you're not drinking it, nor rinsing your food with it, its literary going down the tube!
There are many ways of saving rain water,one way is by collecting rainwater.Rain water is what plants love,because it's free of chlorine,potassium,and other chemicals.
Besides using rainwater for flushing toilet you can also use it for watering your indoor and outdoor plants, grass, washing your car, boat, jet ski, bicycle, cleaning the aluminum sidings of your house, or topping off your pool.
Other advantages is that it directs moisture away from your home's foundation.
The beauty of rainwater is that its free of chemicals, chlorine, lime or calcium. A rain barrel will save most homeowners about 1,300 gallons of water during the peak summer months.
Other uses for water can be for emergency water storage. Of all the precious things in this world, water is one of the most important resources we have for our survival. Without water we wouldn't survive.
Think about it for a second, only 1% of water is potable, the rest of the 97% is composed of the ocean and 2% is found at both extremities of the ice poles.
So weather it be saving rain water or just saving water, it is equally important. You use what mother nature gave us to water our environment and use the treated water wisely.
