Clear Rain is a device that allows you to filter rain effectively and efficiently and allows you to attach hosing to take the cleaned rain to where it is needed, for a pool, pond or any form of water storage.

Clean Rain has been designed by Rain Harvesting Pty Ltd to connect to downpipes to collect and filter the rainwater running through them. The intelligent system features a device known as Smart Sense that allows the system to discard the ‘first flush’ of water that comes through the pipes. The first flush of water is high in contaminants: dirt, dust, bird dropping and other such items are washed off the roof and out of piping from the initial burst of rain. Once this first flush has passed the system starts to divert the water passing through its filters to be sent through any piping or hosing connected to it.

The system uses a comb device to remove any leaves from the rainwater, the water is then filtered through a stainless steel wire mesh which removes small contaminants, even tiny mosquito eggs from the water. The Clean Rain system comprises from 90% lead free UPVC, the remainder of it has been constructed from PP. Both materials are suitable for recycling once the system has come to the end of its useful life and the system has been designed to allow you to quickly and easily break it apart into single material items to allow for easy recycling.

The Clean Rain system helps to make using rainwater simpler and allow the water to be used on a wider range of things. The rain water can be stored for watering a garden, or put into a pond. Due to its cleanness it can also be used in a pool, or set to be stored in a large water storage tank for use in toilets or such devices.

By making use of rainwater you help to reduce the amount of processed water you household requires. Processing water for suitability for taps involves many chemicals, many argue it is best to use water without these for your plants, and is sensible to have back up water to help reduce demand on mains water. The Clean Rain system makes collecting cleaned rainwater easy, allowing you to make use of it however you wish.

Source: Australian International Design Awards

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The Eco-Drop is a concept to use the liquids that worms produce from breaking down waste food as a fertilizer for a garden. The concept helps to prevent harmful chemicals entering the food chain and to prevent water contamination. It also helps to recycle a households food waste into an effective fertilizer for a garden.

The Eco-Drop concept has been designed by Seung Kim to help combat the problems of water contamination and to help reduce the amount of household waste going to landfill. The Eco-Drop would work by using worms to break down organic matter waste (like left over food, vegetable peelings etc). Worms would feed on this waste which would be placed with them into the main chamber of the device. As the worms feed, they excrete the digested matter and break the matter down.

This creates a liquid or worm juice that makes a great fertilizer for a garden. Many use worms to help break down their waste for composting currently. The difference with this concept is that it allows you to make use of the rich fertilizing liquid cleanly and easily. The Eco-Drop allows you to use this fluid as a fertilizer when watering a garden through a sprinkler system. The device hopes to take out the effort in using this form of fertilizer, there is no heavy lifting, no hard work like that of covering the ground in more compost and there is no messy extraction of the fluid. To use the worm juice you simply fill a cup like part of the device with the fluid from a nozzle  located at the bottom of the main chamber, the cup part then attaches to the sprinkler part to allow you to water the garden with a worm juice and water mix.

Chemical fertilizers can cause a lot of damage to the ecosystem. The chemicals find their way down into the water table and are washed into drains which can lead into rivers and lakes. The fertilizers change the natural balance of these water habitats and can cause devastating results. The worm juice though is a natural product, that will not effect the ecosystem in the same way. It also helps to reduce down the amount of waste a household would send to landfill and could help to encourage a household to grown some of their own foods. The concept would not require any long term running costs while providing you with a useful resource for your garden.

Source: iGreenSpot

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The P3 International P0520 is a garden hose spray nozzle attachment that monitors your water usage. It allows you to water your garden or wash your car while keeping track of the quantity of water used to hopefully lead to less water usage over time.

The P3 International P0520 is designed to be attached to a hosepipe. The spray head has 4 different spray patterns that can be used. It can be set to soaker, shower, cone or flat, allowing you to select the best setting for the task, while using the least amount of water. The inbuilt monitor has an LCD display that informs you of your water usage in gallons during that session of use. This function helps to highlight exactly how much water is being consumed, allowing you to figure out how little water you can use while achieving the task at hand.

Many people over water their gardens which can lead to problems, by having a guide to the quantity of water you are using you can guide your efforts better to ensuring you use the same amount each time. The monitor can then be used to help you reduce the amount of water being used while helping the garden to flourish. By keeping track of your average use of water during activities like washing the car, you can monitor your usage to aim to reduce usage for that activity in future. The monitor helps you to be more aware of exactly how much water is being used each time you use your hose. By monitoring your usage it is easier for you to lower you usage. This is especially useful if you have a water meter.

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The Rainwater Pillow is a flexible alternative to a rain barrel. Able to hold significantly more water than conventional barrels, the pillow can be placed underneath decking, in a floorspace or any other such ground level hidden space. The water collected can then be used in a garden or even to flush toilets.

The Rainwater Pillow is designed to take advantage of even short sharp showers, collecting heavy rainfall effectively in minutes. It does this by taking all the rainfall from a houses guttering system, filtering in and due to gravity the water is pulled into the pillow for storage through wide piping to ensure effective and fast collection. Two overflow pipes ensure that the pillow never overfills or ruptures.

By collecting rainwater you can reduce your household water bills (especially if on a water meter) as the water can be used for gardening, cleaning cars and other outdoors objects and even for flushing toilets. It also helps to reduce the amount of water entering drains and so reduces water requiring processing in water treatment facilities. This collected water can also be used in times of drought when water restrictions are applied. Rain barrels do allow for this but do not easily accommodate a hose pipe, and cisterns can take up a lot of space or require a great amount of planning if they are to be placed below ground. The pillow instead takes advantage of unused spaces and with its pump system the water can be accessed conveniently for outdoors use.

The Rainwater Pillow comes with all the basics needed for installation on your property, including an installation manual and DVD. The system comes with two filters to be placed onto your drainpipes to filter the water run off from your roof to ensure the water entering the pillow is free from debris. It also includes a 25 psi water pump, this pump will be able to provide you with 10-12 gallons of water per minute out of things like a hose, this is comparable to a standard hose attached to a tap. The pump is controlled by a remote control so that by connecting a hose and pressing a button you are able to water your garden, green house or even wash a car.

The pillows come in a range of sizes, the standard basic size has a 1000 gallon capacity, but there are pillows for up to a 40000 gallon capacity. The Rainwater Pillows can be made to custom specifications to allow them to fit in any available ground level space like that within a crawl space, under decking, in a greenhouse and such like. The standard 1000 gallon pillow measures 9 ft x 11 ft x 2.5 ft (275 cm x 335 cm x 76 cm) and needs a clearance height of at least 3 ft (91 cm) to accommodate the pillow expanding with water.

The rainwater pillow varies between $2,500 and $4,500, depending on what capacity you opt for.

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Industrial designer Jacky Wu has designed a simple artificial leaf to aid us in our plant watering.  This concept design has been named Dew Drop and aims to keep your plants watered without you ever needing to move a watering can.

The Dew Drop works from the basic principles of condensation, thereby extracting the water vapour out of the air and letting it run into your plant pot.  By simply placing the artificial leaf into the plant pot and plugging it in you should be ensuring your plant stays watered, with the water in the air condensing on the leaf and being funneled down into the plant pot.

Unless you happen to run your house solely from solar power (or any other green electricity source) the green benefits of such a device seem limited. Though you would obviously save yourself a small amount of water use, the power needs of such a device could render it pointless and may even make it a more harmful way for you to water your plants.  It may also have a limited effect in a building that has air conditioning (AC) or a dehumidifier, as the water vapour in the air will have already been removed to some extent from the area.

The Dew Drop should water your plant well in the right environment and would certainly be useful to those who easily forget to water their plants.  How natural it would look though to have multiple plants trailing electrical leads is another matter.

Source: Yanko Design

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The Self Sustaining Indoor Garden is perfect if you don’t have a garden, but you want to grow your own herbs, flowers or vegetables indoors. Just like the AeroPonics Accelerated Indoor Garden, the Self Sustaining Indoor Garden provides all of the light, water, and nutrients needed to grow almost any plant you want.

The light produces just the right mix of wavelengths to quickly grow your plants, whilst the water pumps ensure that the roots don’t dry out. The water contains the nutrients needed by the plants, without the need for soil. There are 6 growth pods which are rotated automatically to ensure all of the plants get an even amount of light and nutrients.

The growth techniques used by the indoor garden gadget means that plants grow up to 50% quicker than conventional plant growing methods. The garden gadget also adjusts the lighting and nutrient delivery for each of the pods during the different growth stages, namely seed germination, initial seedling growth and mature plant growth.

The Self Sustaining Indoor Garden is available for $149.95 plus delivery.

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Well it’s now the gardening season, so most of us are pottering around in our gardens looking after all our plants. If you don’t get a great deal of rain, then you’ll be watering the garden. If you have a garden hose, you’ll probably be using loads of water without realising it! The Water Watch Spray Nozzle and Water Watch Fan Spray Nozzle are adjustable spray attachments for your garden hose that tell you just how much water you’re using.

The Water Watch 8-Pattern Spray Nozzle (pictured above) is slightly different in that it has 8 possible spray patterns that you can choose, each using a different volume of water. Regardless of what mode you use though, the little water meter will tell you how many gallons you’ve used to water the garden.

The fan nozzle is priced at $12.95, and the adjustable nozzle is priced at $17.95.

Source: Oh!Gizmo

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The Hydra watering system is an easy to install and aesthetically pleasing garden irrigation gadget. The Hydra was designed as a solution to avoid home owners needing to dig up their garden to install a watering system. The Hydra uses a range of sensors to determine when to water the garden, saving up to 25% compared to existing watering systems.

The Hydra system is wireless, and simply needs a water supply to be connected to the main unit. The system uses just a single rechargable 9V battery to determine when to water the garden. Feed pipes are able to water plants at up to 1 litre per hour and are designed to be located where plants need the moisture most.

Source: CoroFlot

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