This home is kind of interesting. A lot of people talk about water storage and this home, what they did is they built a concrete vault; a ten thousand gallon tank, that they have a float in, that keeps the water in this tank at a certain level. So they use it as water storage for their home, and they have a pressure regulator with the tank so they can regulate the pressure into their home. So as multiple showers, dishwasher, or other water is used, it maintains a certain pressure.
Now for some information about water capture. Utah used to consider rainwater as public use water, and so you couldn’t capture rainwater.
Back in 2010, Utah passed a law (Rainwater Harvesting) that you can legally catch rainwater. So you can have your rain gutters go into a barrel and you can catch rainwater. However, you can only catch 2 – 100 gallon containers worth of water without registering with the state. State law says that you can catch up to twenty-five hundred gallons of rainwater if you register with the state.
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