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Water harvesting
Rainwater 61
An irrigation system to water the vegetables and collect rainwater has been placed
outside of the intensive garden. The system collects water from the roofs of the
Academy and stores it in a 150.000 litre capacity pool. There are a few million
fish (guppies) and tilapia in the pool to control the breeding of mosquitoes.
Greywater
In collaboration with the faculty of Environmental Engineering of the
Colombian university Manuela Beltran; a greywater system is also being built to
collect and recycle water from showers and washing machines. The water will be
collected in four 1.000 gallon tanks and will be processed through the system so
it can be reused in the intensive garden.
Over the next years, most of the water at the Academy will be harvested and
reused for food production.
