{"id":2194,"date":"2013-05-11T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2013-05-13T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T10:16:58","slug":"tanks-full-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/11\/tanks-full-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanks Full Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2180\" alt=\"20130510 004\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-004-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After over 100mm of rain, both the house and shed rainwater tanks are full, and we are not even in winter yet! \u00a0The overflows are all overflowing and contributing to the groundwater flow in the area. \u00a0 We hadn&#8217;t even used a third of the 120,000l tank which supplies the house and stables over the 6 months without rain, \u00a0so we probably average about 200L per day or 75 kL per year compared to Perth&#8217;s 212 kL per year for a 2 person household &#8211; \u00a0about a third. \u00a0We do have a dam for irrigating the horses summer paddock which also waters the six vege beds, so even if we double our figure, we are still at 70% of the average and that is with 3 horses drinking it. \u00a0At the AWA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozwater.org\" target=\"_blank\">Ozwater <\/a>conference last week, I had a couple of discussions about how rainwater tanks were still considered &#8220;un-economic&#8221; as you could never recoup the capital cost as scheme water is so cheap. \u00a0My argument is that being responsible for your own supply makes a huge difference to your attitude to water and this mindset could be priceless in a water constrained future where all new &#8220;sources&#8221; are going to get more and more expensive and energy intensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over 100mm of rain, both the house and shed rainwater tanks are full, and we are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-004.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}