Recycling rain may create jobs and cut costs

IRELAND’S dream of exporting our floods of rain to parched regions of the world may be pie-in-the-sky. But there are other ways of making money from rain, says Senator Ciaran Cannon of Fine Gael.

He said Germany leads the way with 5,000 jobs created in rainwater harvesting.

He said that more than one third of new buildings built in Germany in 2005 were equipped for rainwater collection, an industry with an estimated €340 million turnover.