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Components of A Rain Water Collection System

The three main components of a rain water collection system are: 1. A roof, which should maximize surface area to collect as much rain as possible. More surface area means more rainwater collected. 2. A trough to guide the collected rainwater from the roof towards the storage tank, ensuring it is sized appropriately to avoid overflow and wasted water. 3. A storage tank connected to the trough to hold the collected rainwater for later use, requiring the right size to store enough water without overflowing or being too large.

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Components of A Rain Water Collection System

The three main components of a rain water collection system are: 1. A roof, which should maximize surface area to collect as much rain as possible. More surface area means more rainwater collected. 2. A trough to guide the collected rainwater from the roof towards the storage tank, ensuring it is sized appropriately to avoid overflow and wasted water. 3. A storage tank connected to the trough to hold the collected rainwater for later use, requiring the right size to store enough water without overflowing or being too large.

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Components of a Rain Water Collection System

There are three main components to a rain water collection system: a roof, a trough and a
storage tank. All three components are necessary for the collection system to work properly.
To begin, the roofs main goal is to collect as much rain as possible. This means that the roof
should be designed in such a way that it maximizes surface area. Surface area is the extent of a
2-dimensional surface enclosed by a boundary. By increasing surface area, you increase the
space that rain can fall and be caught in the collection system: View the diagram below to
understand how important surface area is for collecting rain.

Roof B
Roof A
Roof

Rain

Roof A has 10 drops of water about to hit its surface and, because it is a roof with a lot of
surface area, all 10 drops of water will land on the roof to later be collected and used. Roof B
also has 10 drops of water about to hit its surface but this time only 6 drops of water will be
collected and 4 drops will fall on the ground, unable to be used for drinking water.
The second component of a rain water collection system is the trough. A trough is a tunnel or
pipe system that guides the water towards the direction of the storage tank. You would have
seen troughs before on your own house! They are at the edge of your roof collection rain water
and guiding the water down the trough, down your house and onto the ground. When
designing a trough, you need to think about the size of trough so that you dont lose water from
spill. This means that, if there is more water than the trough can handle, the water will
overflow and spill over the sides of the trough being unable to use.
The third and last component of a rain water collection system is the storage tank. The storage
tank is directly connected with the trough. The trough brings all the rain water and pours it into
the storage tank to be stored and used when needed. When designing your storage tank, you
also need to think of size. If you build it too small, you will lose water if the water starts to
overflow. If you build the storage tank too large, however, you are wasting materials and
spending too much money on a tank size that you do not need.

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