Rain Flows Through Permeable Concrete

The urban, concrete and black top islands are disasterour for our waterways.

As the above video shows ever so briefly (at 0:33), 90% of all water that falls on concrete heads directly into the rivers and streams carrying with it pollutants from the surface of roadways, driveways, garages, and more. Every drop of oil that drips from our cars, every bit of transmission fluid, all of the spilled paint and soap...it all goes into - if we're lucky - the storm drains (to be treated) or straight into our natural waterways.

Pervious concrete just might be able to help avoid that, allowing almost all water that falls upon it to head into the natural groundwater where it can be dealt with naturally.

(I've mentioned pervious concrete before, but that was without the cool video to go with it.)