A community of 2,000 people, on the outskirts of Germany's capital, makes the most of rainwater. It is a housing complex that has infrastructure conceived by the Berlin University of Technology, which nourishes its underground mantles and recycles water for baths and irrigation of public areas.
All the water received by the rain that enters a circuit in which the inclined tiles of the roofs, gutters on the outside of the houses and small slopes allow to transport the water without the need for pumping.
This model for the use of water has as its main infrastructure a set of channels and roads for rainwater, which flow into an artificial lake, which has planted different species of reeds and palms.
The person in charge of the project, Harald Kraft, says that all the houses in the village use recycled water for cleaning bathrooms and for irrigation. "So we give two or three times to use each raindrop. Our motto is that not a drop of rain should come out without being used here."
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