A lot of time and money is spent cleaning our tap water to a degree that it is safe for drinking and then its piped to where you live so it seems a bit mad to use drinking water to water the garden when so much is falling out of the sky and being channeled into the gutters where we live.

At home I am using 2 big bins which I have placed under the gutters. Its quite easy to take apart the modular gutters and redirect the roof runoff from the gutter and drains into any kind of storage you can find.

In this photo below I have just taken a section out of the gutter so the water falls into my collection bin and not down into the drain as if it was useless waste.

Having a bin full of water also saves me time when watering in the evenings. I can just plunge the watering can into the water container and fill it in 2 seconds rather than waiting several minutes for the low pressure trickle out of the tap to fill it up.

In this photo above the end of the gutter was missing anyway so I didnt have to take apart anything just simply place the bin under the end of the gutter.

The first time I put these 2 bins out they filled overnight!!

We might be experiencing global warming but Ireland certainly isn’t drying out!!

Did you know that there are 250,000 raindrops in 1 litre of water?

Try counting them if you like!!