Catch rain from your rooftop and use it in your garden! BlueBarrel provides you with the tools, materials, and know-how to build space-efficient and cost-effective rainwater catchment systems with recycled barrels. Use our Do-It-Yourself (DIY) RainKit to build your own BlueBarrel Rainwater Catchment System, or if you're local, hire us to design and build it for you. Learn about your options at www
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BlueBarrel Systems are made of repurposed 55-gallon food-grade drums. Barrels are daisy-chained together for efficient flow and no limit to the amount of storage capacity you can install! The space efficient BlueBarrel System can be lined up along the side of a building or fence, making great use of marginal side-yard space while still allowing room for access and circulation. Low cost and flexibility make BlueBarrel the ideal solution for your rooftop rainwater catchment system! A FREE SOURCE OF CLEAN WATER
Rainwater is some of the purest water available. Free of salts and chemicals that run off into surface waters and leach into groundwater, and devoid of treatment chemicals that are added to municipal sources, rainwater is suitable for many uses including landscaping, washing, and utility. Rainwater harvested from rooftops is not suitable for human consumption because it has been exposed to roofing materials and debris, but it is absolutely ideal for a thirsty garden. Young plants especially love the salt-free fresh water. You’ll see the difference in your water bill once you tie your irrigation into a BlueBarrel System! AN ESSENTIAL SOLUTION FOR HEALTHY WATERSHEDS AND ENVIRONMENT
As if a happy garden weren’t enough, your local watershed (and the environment at large!) will also thank you for collecting your stormwater. When you install a BlueBarrel System, you are diverting water that would otherwise sheet across lawns, roads, and other hardscapes, reaching our sensitive waterways as polluted runoff. The water you catch, if used in your garden, will instead percolate into the soil at an appropriate rate, recharging groundwater, hydrating soils, and nurturing the plants that give us food, shade, habitat, and endless sensory delight. A rainwater catchment system is an essential part of your ecological landscape design. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY
By harvesting rainwater that falls on your site, you will feel the satisfaction of meeting some of your household’s water needs with onsite resources. Although rainwater collected from rooftops is not potable, it can be treated for drinking. In an emergency situation, you will feel tremendous peace of mind knowing your family’s water needs can be met for extended periods of time in the event that municipal sources are compromised. Treating rainwater as a regular drinking source is costly and requires special permits, but can be done. For emergency preparedness, we recommend keeping water treatment tablets or filter pumps in your home, available as standard camping gear. Bleach and boiling can also help to sanitize water in an emergency situation. Let it rain!
