resources on rainwater catchment

[marley]

Hey everybody!

I was just wondering if their were any suggestions for resources (books, sites, etc) that people found useful for helping in thinking about rainwater catchment and storage for small homes?

I am planning on building some sort of simple roof catchment system for my dad's farm in Costa Rica and I wanted find some resources that I could get ideas and plans from.

I have seen several books on amazon.com : "Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged" by Suzy Banks and "Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply: Design, Construction and Inplementation".
There were also a couple others.

I am sure that someone on this site would have suggestions.

Thanks for the help

[RobWindt]

G'day Marley, here's a couple of starter links
Cheers

http://www.permaculture.biz/FerrocementVN.htm
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/t ... -tanks.pdf (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/technical-briefs/36-ferrocement-water-tanks.pdf)

[marley]

Thanks so much for the links Rob. At the "renascent ratbag" site I found all kinds of cool stuff that distracted me from my rainwater collection research!