33 Buckets Rainwater Harvesting

Meeting time

TBD

Project description

Our project is called 33 Buckets Rainwater Harvesting System. Our goal is to assist Cusibamba, Peru with water collection. Water collection is important because Cusibamba experiences a long drought each year, and they need a way to collect a store rainwater during the rainy season. Currently, Cusibamba does not have a way to harvest a lot of rainwater. Cusibambans use water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and agriculture. 

We are designing a system that captures rainwater from rooftops and stores it for future use. We think the roofs of greenhouses would be a location for our system so that the water can be used for agriculture. Gutters will collect the rainwater and divert it into a storage tank or directly to the crops. This is the second semester of this project. In the first semester, we found Cusibamba rainfall data, created a conceptual design, and tried to figure out a method for mounting the gutters below the roof’s edge. 

Location

Peru