The Fiji Times reported on 12th September ’16, that Fiji’s Water Authority’s CEO, Mr. Opetiaia Ravai,
"It's always our advice to members of the public that when they have a chance to harvest rain water they should just make use of the opportunity to store it," he said.
Of course we agree.
However, what Mr. Ravai does not explain is that harvesting rain water needs to be done in a way that does not introduce pollutants into the collected rainwater. For the most part people collect rain water of roofs. Those roofs are normally tin sheet metal, many times painted with paint to make it more rust resistant. Even when they collect the rain water, there needs to be adequate steps taken to ensure that nothing gets into the storage tank.