Rainwater harvesting is a sustainable solution to water scarcity. It's the ingenious capturing and storing of rainwater for various purposes like irrigation, landscaping and household needs. This ...

This 500-gallon tank will irrigate the UC Santa Cruz Village garden with rainwater during the region's dry season. It was designed, built, and adorned with a painted mural by students as part of an ...

CHICAGO — When one thinks of rainwater harvesting, the typical image that comes to mind is rain barrels and cisterns. However, there is so much more in the world of water reduction strategies — today ...

Written for city dwellers by city dwellers, The Urban Homestead (Process Media, 2010) is an illustrated instruction guidebook for the homesteading movement. Kelly Croyne and Erik Knutzen show how to ...

Spring is a great time for planting, but those plants you just bought will need water to get established and to survive. This means spring is also the perfect time to think about rain harvesting in ...

About 90 percent of Thad Johnson’s neighbors in rural Coconino County haul drinking water, unable to pay the expense of reaching the water table a mile underground. Johnson and his family live fully ...