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Rusty rainwater tanks also breed huge numbers of mosquitoes, which are a pain in the butt (old neighbour has about 6 rusty tanks). Mosquito nets over the bed are a must, I never did work out how they get into the house but they manage it somehow. My tank here is concrete but it leaks, and I...

Rainwater tastes WAY better than mains water, and if the tanks were bad for you I doubt they'd be allowed to sell them, pretty much everyone out here has a tank or several. Over the years polytanks have replaced all the rusty old iron ones. They advertise them as being completely stable. I'm...

My house that will be an IP already has the new light bulbs, fully insulated, rainwater only, dual flush loo, low water showerhead, an awful lot of 4 foot tall trees planted out the back, mulch and a compost heap. Solar HWS was always a prohibitively expensive one, so never happened - we got a...