I just don’t like the idea of that little disk in the water meter spinning round and round, so I can pay for chlorinated water for my veg patch and pay again on the sewerage bill for water that was never handled by the treatment facility.
I agree. I have clay-ish soil (live across the road from a lake) so it’s pretty good on water retention, but every FREE thing (like rainwater) I can get from Nature is a bonus.
We did the math at work. When we get a 1-inch rainfall, and it falls on an average home-sized roof, if you could collect all that water, it would be something like 92,000 GALLONS of water! From 1 INCH of rainfall. Simply amazing.