Rain Water Storage Challenge

Posted on by Shannon Cowan

Are you adding Rainwater Storage as part of your water conservation strategy?

Just Released! SSIWPA created a video about basic design for a non-potable rainwater system: Harvesting The Rain for Outdoor Use.

Thanks to Rob Lowrie for videography.

WATER STORAGE CHALLENGE GOAL:

To divert 3 million gallons of water that would otherwise have been drawn from the groundwater or lakes 

Please fill in the form here below  for rainwater storage that you add between January 2021 and December 2026 on Salt Spring Island. Your entries will contribute to the measure of conservation and management of our freshwater resources for a climate-resilient future!

Water Storage Challenge

Tracking new rainwater storage on Salt Spring Island between January 2021 and December 2026.

Please enter a number in this field with no other characters. Use this field if you wish to report in US gallons. Most cistern volumes sold on Salt Spring are in US gallons. Leave this blank if you are reporting volume of storage in litres, below.
Please enter a number in this field with no other characters. Use this field if you wish to report in litres. You do not need to fill this field if you answered in gallons, above.

Tips:

Please only fill the form in once for each new stored volume you add

Storage recorded here should be actively used

Name and email is optional (anonymous replies welcome, please use honour system and reply only once)

The goal is to divert the use of 3 Million Gallons of groundwater and lakewater that would otherwise have been used for human uses on Salt Spring Island by adding 3 million gallons of actively-used rainwater storage to our community before the end of 2026!