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Vertical Rainwater Harvesting System

Build an EkomuroH2O+ water tank from PET cool drink bottles. With this innovative system from Columbia, you can harvest your rain water for drinking or watering your garden.The system works best if you are in an area where it rains regularly. This instruction is for a module with 54 bottles à 3 litres.

Done in 2 days
Skill level medium

Published under CC:BY-SA by

Eko Group H2O+

Author · Ricardo Alba Torres

How you make it

The EkomuroH2O+ rainwater harvesting system is very well documented for the Columbian context. Find the manual here. It will be soon adapted to the South African context and documented step-by-step on dooiy.

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