Comments on: How to Make the Most of the Rain https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/ Sustainable news for the Middle East Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daniel Pedersen https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/#comment-1454 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:20:47 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=3806#comment-1454 Average annual rainfall in Israel ranges from a low of 32mm in Eilat, through 500-550 in the center and coast (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa) to 600-650 in the north (Nahariya, Galilee), up to reported top levels of 1,100 mm. London has about 600 mm, and Cornwall over 1,100 mm. So we get the same amount of rain as England on an annual basis, but it’s concentrated into 6 months of the year.
In order to save rainwater for irrigation in Israel, the challenge is to plan ahead and build enough storage for the 5-6 months of dry season, because we aren’t like “upstate NY where it rains quite often.”

Colin is correct that because of our often extreme rain events (1 month’s worth of rain in 2 days), much of it flows over land and through sewers to the sea and does not recharge the aquifers

]]> By: Robert https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/#comment-1455 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:51:47 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=3806#comment-1455 I live in Upstate NY where it rains quite often.
To cover the dry spells (if that’s what you could call them) I catch rain water in converted 50 gallon foodgrade barrels. This past summer was very wet for our region and I “wasted” more rain water.
For the weeks that we did not have any rain it was nice to use the rain water from the barrels.

Robert

]]> By: Colin Waters https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/#comment-1457 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:03:23 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=3806#comment-1457 How much rain do you get in Israel every year? Where I live in Denver, we hardly ever have rain storms in the summer anymore. We are lucky to reach our average of two inches. And where I lived last year, it wasn’t unusual for rain storms to produce over two inches themselves. And it was always funny to hear the people complain about how they were in a drought, when nearly all of the rain went to the sewers and into the rivers and into the ocean.

In Colorado, we at least have the luxury of collecting most of our rain in the sewers that all lead back into the pipes eventually. I wish more cities who didn’t receive much rain or received so much they don’t think it to be a problem in the future would make efforts to collect the rain fall and put it to better use.

Again it will probably take a crisis for anyone to ever come to the conclusion that we take rain for granted.

]]> By: Simpy Green https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/#comment-1456 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:52:17 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=3806#comment-1456 That would be one of the greatest things in the whole world, would be a relatively cheap to implement system of rain gathering for the tops of all buildings and rooftops. So in addition to just praying for rain, and using the rain, we would be able to store it and use for later.

]]> By: greenprophet https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/11/how-to-make-the-most-of-the-rain/#comment-1458 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:54:32 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=3806#comment-1458 How to Make the Most of the Rain http://tinyurl.com/6y48yf

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