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Design your sustainable water collection system Using 5-year historical climate data for accurate prediction.
Using - 5 years of historical climate data
Complete assessment based on 5 years of real historical climate data
See how your system performs across different rainfall years — from droughts to downpours! This analysis helps you understand your water security over time, not just in an "average" year.
This isn't just a calculator — it's a real-time water system simulator using actual historical rainfall data, down to day-by-day precision!
Switch between years to see how your system performs in different rainfall conditions
This chart shows when your tank is full, when it's running low, and when you might face water shortages. The goal? Keep that line away from zero!
Compare how much rain you collect (blue bars) versus how much water you need (green bars) each month. When blue exceeds green, you're building reserves. When green is higher, you're drawing from storage.
Dive into the numbers! This table shows exactly what happens each month — from rainfall to collection, storage levels, and whether you have enough water or run short.
| Month | Rain | Available |
Needed / Used |
End Tank | Status |
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Get a ballpark idea of what it'll cost to build your rainwater harvesting system. Remember, these are estimates — actual prices vary by location and materials!
Based on your specific setup, here are personalized recommendations to improve your water self-sufficiency. Small changes can make a big difference!
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Your Crystal Ball for Water Security
Most rainwater calculators give you a single number based on average rainfall and call it a day. But here's the problem: you don't live in an "average" year. Some years it pours. Some years there's drought. Your water system needs to handle all of them.
That's where this simulator comes in.
This tool pulls 5 years of actual historical rainfall data for your location—not estimates, not averages, but the real day-by-day rainfall from 2020-2024 (or your location's available data). Then it runs a complete simulation of your proposed system through each of those years, tracking every liter collected, every liter used, and most importantly: every day your tank runs dry.
Click "View Details" on any month and you'll see the full day-by-day breakdown: rainfall amounts, water collected, tank levels rising and falling, and the exact days your system failed. It's like watching your water system operate in fast-forward, letting you spot problems before spending a penny on construction.
Use the year selector dropdown to jump between different years—compare how your system handles a monsoon year versus a drought year. Watch the charts and tables update instantly. See how that 30% rainfall reduction in 2021 caused 3 weeks without water, or how the 2023 deluge kept your tank overflowing for months.
The section includes beautiful, intuitive charts:
All color-coded so you can instantly spot problem areas (red = water shortage, orange = tight but OK, green = plenty of water).
The tool crunches the numbers to tell you things like:
After showing you the problems, the tool doesn't leave you hanging. Scroll down to find the Smart Optimization Tips section—a treasure trove of personalized advice based on your specific situation:
This isn't just a calculator—it's a risk assessment tool, a design validator, and a teacher all rolled into one. It takes the guesswork out of rainwater system design by showing you exactly how your proposed setup would have performed during recent years.
Learn about Water Security through our interactive audio narration. Choose a section below to begin:
Humans have been harvesting rainwater for over 4,000 years. Ancient civilizations from Rome to Southeast Asia knew this worked. It's not new technology. What's new is precision. We now have real weather data, computer simulation, and engineering tools that our ancestors could only dream of.
The principle is beautifully simple. Capture, store, use, repeat. And it's having a renaissance. Climate uncertainty. Off-grid living. Sustainability goals. Personal resilience. People everywhere are rediscovering what ancient civilizations always knew. But here's the gap.
Most people want to harvest rainwater, but they don't know if their system will actually work. That uncertainty stops thousands of projects before they start.
So people turn to online calculators. Type in your roof size, your rainfall, and boom, one number. You need a 15,000-litre tank. But there's a fatal flaw. That number is based on average annual rainfall. And you don't live in an average year.
Year one might be perfect. Year two, fantastic. Year three, your tank runs empty for 14 days. You've just spent $5,000 to $15,000 on a system that should work. But will it?
Enter water security. And it's not just another calculator. Think of it as a time machine for your water system. It uses five to six years of actual historical weather data for your exact location. Then it simulates your entire system, day by day, through every single year.
It shows you exactly when, where, and why things go wrong. You'll know about problems before spending a single dollar on construction. Design with confidence.
Let me show you what's happening under the hood. First, the data foundation. The app pulls real daily rainfall data from weather stations worldwide. Your specific location, the past five to six years. Not estimates. Not climate models. Actual recorded precipitation, day by day.
Next, you input your specifics. Your roof area. Tank size. How many people in your household. Daily water usage. It calculates actual collectible water based on your setup.
Then comes the simulation. Day by day, for each year. Rain falls. Your roof catches it. Your tank fills. Your household uses water. The tank drains.
The app then compares all years side by side. You'll see your best year, your worst year, and everything in between. Same location, wildly different water availability. You'll understand your system's reliability across different climate conditions. Drought years. Monsoon years. Everything.
The moment you input your data, something special happens. The app doesn't just throw numbers at you, it teaches you how to interpret what you're seeing.
Right at the top, this analysis uses five years of actual weather data from your location. All metrics are based on the worst case year, giving you conservative, realistic expectations instead of optimistic averages.
Then you see your system health at a glance. Not percentages. Real days without water.
The app shows your storage buffer in months. 1.8 months means your tank holds 1.8 months of your household's water usage. Why does this matter? Built-in education. For seasonal climates with long dry periods, aim for three plus month buffer.
You're learning as you go. This is the aha moment, why averages are dangerous. But it gets better. You can watch a day-by-day simulation. Switch between years with a drop-down menu. See daily rainfall events filling it up. Watch your household consumption draining it down.
And those red zones? Those are days when your tank hit empty. Click learn how this simulator works and you get a pop-up. This isn't just a calculator, it's a real-time water system simulator using actual historical rainfall data.
Choose any year. See month-by-month metrics. Rainfall collected. Water used. Tank levels. Days without water per month. Green months means surplus. You're collecting more than you're using. Orange means deficit. Red means critical shortage. Tank empty.
Overflow. That's water wasted because your tank was already full.
You get interactive controls. Adjust your shower usage from 50 litres per person per day down to 35. Instantly see. This saves 43,800 litres per year and eliminates 12 days of shortage in drought years. There's even a cost analysis. Your 20,000 litre system might cost $12,000 installed, but it saves $1,800 per year in water bills. Payback period? Six and a half years.
Over 20 years, you save $37,000. ROI of 308%.
Let's talk about what this means for you. Before tools like this existed, you'd guess at tank size based on rules of thumb, hope your system worked and often discover problems after spending thousands. You'd spend years in trial and error. Chronic uncertainty. When I have water next month. Maybe.
After using water security, you know exactly what tank size you need. You understand your system's limitations before building. You avoid expensive mistakes.
In less time than it takes to make coffee, five minutes, you know more about your water system than most people learn in years.
This is risk assessment, design validation and education in one tool.
Let's zoom out. Climate change means increased variability. Longer droughts. More intense storms when they do come. The comfortable middle ground is disappearing.
Traditional water infrastructure is struggling to adapt. Systems designed for 20th century weather patterns facing 21st century chaos.
Personal water security equals household resilience. Rainwater harvesting isn't an alternative anymore. It's essential backup. Your roof becomes a water utility.
And when individual households are water independent, entire communities become resilient. Plus environmental benefits. Reduced strain on aquifers. Lower energy use for water treatment and pumping. Less infrastructure load.
It's not just about saving money. It's about sleeping soundly. Knowing that no matter what happens, drought, infrastructure failure, supply disruptions, you have water.
So here's my invitation. Try it yourself. Water security is free to use. No sign up required. Unlimited simulations. Instant results. Play with different scenarios.
What if I doubled my tank size? What if I installed a bigger roof? What if my family used less water?
Compare good enough with bulletproof. Make decisions based on your location, your weather, your needs. Because the rain that falls on your roof tomorrow, it already belongs to you. The question is, are you ready to catch it?