Last October I found myself walking across a golden field on the outskirts of Rome. Large bales of hay dotted the landscape before me, a welcome site to those of us trotting across what would have ...

Learning Tree Farm uses cisterns to collect rainwater from a barn that was originally built to dry tobacco in the 1800s. Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate.

The Houston area has periods of high rainfall alternating with periods of practically no rainfall. The sensible strategy is to catch as much water as possible when it rains and then use it to water ...

It stands almost as tall as a two-story building, spans six feet in diameter, holds 4,000 gallons of water and needs 3 inches of rain to fill it up. This corrugated, metallic, "iconic" cistern was put ...

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 ...

One inch of rain pouring down on an average-sized residential roof creates 748 gallons of stormwater runoff, according to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division. After collecting debris, waste ...

Back in the day, as "they" say, it was more common than not for folks to collect their rainwater and use it for a variety of tasks. A barrel at the end of the rainspout could collect enough to water ...

In what is considered a breakthrough for rainwater codes and standards moving forward, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) has accepted its proposed change for the Facilities ...

Want to make use of rain water in your own garden? Sustainable Burien will be teaching residents how to harvest rainwater at a special event. Here are all the details: Sustainable Burien Gathering ...