Flow Audit Timing vs. Storage Reality: A Process View for Rainwater Integration
Rainwater integration has a dirty secret. Most systems are sized on guesswork. A tank that looks right on paper can overflow in April and run dry in July. The culprit isn't the tank—it's the timing of your flow audit versus what your storage actually does. Get the sequence wrong, and you're building for a storm that never comes, or worse, one that already left. This article lays out a process view that keeps flow data and storage reality honest. You'll see who needs this, what to settle before you start, how the workflow runs, and where it breaks. No magic formulas—just a clear-eyed look at the numbers that matter. Who Needs This and What Goes Wrong Without It The homesteader's mismatch You have a 10,000-liter tank and a dry-season hope. The pump runs twice a day, the garden drinks, and then August arrives with nothing in the pipe.