A device for monitoring evaporation capacity of a water surface evaporator in a process includes a water surface evaporator and a rain collector, the rain collector and the water surface evaporator having a same size of orifice area, height, and contour profile of a monitoring device. One side of the water surface evaporator is connected with a first measuring well through a pipeline, and another side of the water surface evaporator is connected with a first electromagnetic flowmeter, a water supplementing electromagnetic valve and an overflow electromagnetic valve through a water pipe. The water supplementing electromagnetic valve is connected with a water supplementing barrel through a water supplementing pipe. A water collecting barrel is installed below the special rain collector. A second magnetostrictive water level meter, a starting drainage switch and a stopping drainage switch are installed in the second measuring well.

Panels with substantially integrated watershedding features may be installed on the roof a house or other structure in lieu of traditional roofing materials. The panels include a body formed from a mixture of filler materials and polymeric binder materials, which can include recycled materials, with watershedding features generally formed with and/or integrated with the panels. The panels also can be installed in overlapping courses along a roof with the watershedding features incorporated along one or more peripheral edges. The watershedding features of adjacent panels further can cooperated to collect and divert water away from the upper surfaces and/or away headlap and/or sidelap joints defined between the panels.

A rain head comprising a lower body, a screen and an upper body. The screen includes a frame having a trough or recess. Lower parts of the sidewalls of the upper body 14 can fit into the trough or recess to enable the upper body to be removably mounted to the rain head. The screen also includes a peripheral flange and a downwardly extending lip that enable the screen to be removably mounted to the upper part of the lower body. At least some water splashing off the screen during a rain event comes into contact with the upper body and is re-directed to flow into the lower body and out through the outlet of the lower body to a rainwater collection tank. The screen and upper body may be provided separately to the lower body.

An automatic rainwater collection system, with a high degree of autonomy and sensitivity, which allows the collection and use of rainwater, in open spaces, areas of difficult access and/or lacking of water extraction systems, as well as in domestic spaces such as gardens or roofs, without additional adaptations for its use and which works with solar energy. The automatic rainwater collection system is conformed by: a flower-shaped obturable rainwater receiving element, which comprises: a plurality of internal petals and a plurality of external petals that can be opened or closed in an automated manner, a sensor with high sensitivity to droplet impacts and/or relative humidity, which is operatively connected to a motor to control the opening and closing of the plurality of petals of the rainwater receiving element; a support frame, which functions as a support for the obturable rainwater receiving element and as a water storage media; a modular system for filtering water, connected to said central media of water accumulation, which comprises a plurality of filtering modules, which provide different filtering options depending on the quantity and combination thereof in order to obtain different qualities of water for use in several activities; and a water storage media, which further functions as base and support of the collection system.

A cover for a gutter system, the cover having opposing cover ends and opposing cover edges. The cover may include a grid segment that is operatively coupled to a front segment and/or a rear segment. The grid segment may include a primary set of ribs and a secondary set of ribs. The front segment and/or the rear segment may have one or more channels that aid in bending a portion of the cover during installation. Adjacent covers may be operatively coupled through the use of one or more couplings (e.g., projections, cavities, or the like), which also allow for thermal expansion and/or contraction of the covers when installed. Furthermore, corner strips (e.g., inner corner strips, outer corner strips, or the like) having angled slots may be utilized to assemble adjacent covers at the corners where gutters meet. The angled slots allow the covers to be assembled flush within corner strips.

A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one water-collecting-and-decelerating fruit-and-nut-collecting-and-decelerating wind-diffusing-and-redirecting multi-function-transversable-ridge-and-seam multi-function-twist-locking-base carapace, which has at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, at least one second three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel, a water-ejecting fruit-and-nut-discharging wind-diffusing crown-carapace nozzle, at least one breadth-wise carapace-panel-connecting seam, at least one mid-panel water-directing water-decelerating fruit-and-nut-decelerating wind-diffusing ridge seam, a upper hub, rib-hinging intersectors, arched carapace-supporting ribs, a three-hundred-sixty-degree-rotatably-locking center-support stanchion, an adjustable stanchion-supporting twist-locking base, a shuttle hub, and actuating-and-supporting ribs, comprises the steps of: sewing said at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel and said at least one second three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel together such that said at least one breadth-wise carapace-panels-connecting seam and said at least one mid-panel water-directing water-decelerating fruit-and-nut-decelerating wind-diffusing ridge seams are formed between said at least one first three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel and said at least one second three-hundred-and-sixty-degree-orientational-carapace panel for converging rain water therein-to repeatedly change the direction of rain water to decelerate the flowing speed of rain water to reduce water splash to avoid damaging irrigated vegetables, for converging harvested fruits therein to repeatedly change the direction of harvested fruits to decelerate the rolling speed of harvested fruits to reduce fruit bruises to avoid throwing away bruised fruits, for converging harvested nuts therein to repeatedly change the direction of harvested nuts to decelerate the rolling speed of harvested nuts to reduce nut bruises to avoid throwing away bruised nuts, for converging catched balls therein to repeatedly change the direction of catched balls to decelerate the rolling speed of catched balls to reduce ball damages to avoid throwing away damaged balls, for directing rain water therealong, for directing harvested fruits therealong, for directing harvested nuts therealong, for directing game balls therealong, for forming a collecting cistern to collect rain water to irrigate garden, for forming a diverting gutter to collect rain water to discharge said rain water away from house balcony and foundation, for forming a collecting

The invention relates to a drainage-body unit having at least one drainage-body element (10), at least one first shaft element (11) and at least one second shaft element (12), wherein a treatment element (13) is located in the first shaft element (11) between a fluid inlet (14).

A gutter cover for covering an open top of a gutter, comprising: a central cover portion positionable over the open top; a rear cover mounting portion extending rearwardly from a rear central cover portion end and being engageable with a rear gutter portion of the gutter; and a front cover mounting portion extending forwardly from a front central cover portion end and being engageable with the front gutter portion, the front cover mounting portion being configured such that a distal front mounting portion end of the front cover mounting portion is located under the central cover portion and rearward of the front central cover portion end and such that a reinforcement portion of the front cover mounting portion adjacent the distal front mounting portion end is superposed against a bottom central portion surface of the central cover portion, the reinforcement portion being secured to the central cover portion.

A downspout diverter for diverting collected water, such as rainwater. The diverter either directs the collected water towards a storage tank, such as a rainwater harvesting storage tank to towards an outflow portion. When the collected water is directed towards the outflow portion, the water exits the diverter spilling the water to the ground.

A louvered pergola includes (a) a plurality of posts; (b) an elevated frame supported by the posts and defining a central frame opening; and (c) a plurality of louvers supported by the frame and extending parallel with each other across the frame opening. The plurality of louvers includes a first louver fixed to the frame, a second louver fixed to the frame opposite the first louver, and a plurality of pivotable louvers pivotably supported by the frame between the first and second louvers. The pivotable louvers are pivotable between a closed position in which the plurality of louvers partially overlap with each other to close the frame opening and an open position in which a gap is provided between adjacent louvers of the plurality of louvers.