2. Regulations and standards
As already mentioned, the use of rainwater is a very old practice that varies from country to country. It existed and developed long before the emergence of a regulatory framework or even guidelines. This predominance of practice over standard (understood here as "the set of formalized provisions and procedures designed to define, or even frame, said practice") remains the reality in many countries today. In this section, it is not possible to provide an international overview of the regulatory and/or normative situation. We shall therefore focus on the French case and its specific features. We begin with a presentation of the French regulatory texts themselves (§
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Systèmes de récupération de l'eau de pluie pour son utilisation à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur des bâtiments (remplacée par la norme EN 16941-1). - NF P 16-005 - 2011
- Protection contre la pollution de l'eau potable dans les réseaux intérieurs et exigences générales des dispositifs de protection contre la pollution par retour. - NF EN 1717 - 2001
- Rainwater harvesting systems – code of practice [Rainwater...
Regulations
Arrêté du 21 août 2008 relatif à la récupération des eaux de pluie et à leur usage à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur des bâtiments.
Arrêté du 17 décembre 2008 relatif au contrôle des installations privatives de distribution d'eau potable, des ouvrages de prélèvement, puits et forage et des ouvrages de récupération des eaux de pluie.
Guides
ASTEE (Scientific and Technical Association for Water and the Environment). – Guide Technique Récupération et Utilisation de l'eau de pluie. Information and recommendations for the construction of systems using water from roofs and stored in situ. Paris: ASTEE, 65 p., coordinated by Bernard de Gouvello (2015).
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Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
Scientific and technical association for water and the environment (ASTEE) :
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) :
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