Quality of Rooftop Harvested Rainwater Stored in Polyethylene Terephthalate Container

Abstract

Quality of rainwater is gaining awareness day by day in today’s era looking over to the current crisis of freshwater sources and even scarcity of water. Due to the hasty increase in levels of pollution, urbanization, industrialization and climate change the quality of available water sources is depreciating day by day and we are left with the only option to look for some other reliable sources of water which can be potable enough and can be stored and used round the year specially during the dry spells of the year. This current study stresses on the harvested rainwater quality from the rooftops to look for the different aspects during storage which alters the quality of water and to find out the different methodologies which can be implemented for storing harvested rainwater so that the quality of the harvested water can be preserved during storage and is intact till the point it reaches its consumers. The outcome of this study can provide some firm rules for efficient rooftop rainwater harvesting. In the current work, polyethylene terephthalate material has been used as a storage material under different temperature conditions to analyze the quality of rainwater. The similar experimentation can be carried out with different materials for more diversity and analysis in the results.