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Rain Water
By peace | April 23, 2010
The above photograph shows you a cleaner standing on the carpark rooftop awaiting water to be cleared (drained).
At this multi-storey carpark, I had seen people used ‘free’ water(cleaner might have forgotten to do their complete job, thereby ‘exposing’ the tap to anyone’s use) to wash their car. At the bottom level of the carpark is where people usually wash their car — these people need to pay for the water from the tap.
Lately, the carpark rooftop had collected a pool of stagnant water and this is potential mosquitoes breeding grounds. After much ‘intervention’, finally something had been done and the water is cleared now…
In Singapore, I do not know who design this flats, carparks and gardens. They may be young people and might have no experience in life, or never ‘think’ of so much details. Constructing such a rooftop creates so much problems. There are so many similar rooftops in Woodlands!
Heavy rain, outside my window, I just see the water being ‘wasted’.
This is the old usual spots where I used to have fun with my two ‘older’ kids now. When they were young and I was still working as life insurance adviser, I taught them how to collect rain water from this spot. I used a small container and put it above the air-condition here. Small children learn fast. Whenever it rains, my children will ran to the bathroom to take the container to collect rain.
Rain dripping down from outside my house
We have definitely stopped doing that for so long ago. It is dangerous to put things on top of the air-conditioner. I can only watch the water dripping down as shown in the photograph here.
Watching the rain dripping, reminds me of olden days where people use pails to collect rainwater. In Singapore, people stay in flats. How to collect rain water? simplyrainbarrels.com provides rain harvesting answers. There are rain barrels, tank accessories, rain tank systems as well as garden accessories that can actually be used by Singapore to capture rain. Consider the carpark, if rain water barrels are being used, residents who have their car parked at the multi-storey carparks can use the rainwater to wash their cars!
At home, how I wish the flat were designed better with platform that we can use for collecting rainwater…
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