Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, white above-ground cistern in a grove - Robalito/Shutterstock If you're looking for an effective, sustainable way to ...

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 ...

Nick is a writer with nearly a decade of experience in the home improvement industry. Now one of Forbes Home’s in-house writers, he previously wrote for Forbes Home as a freelance writer. He has ...

In periods of drought and extreme heat such as San Antonio has faced this year, residents with systems for storing and collecting rainwater could help take some pressure off municipal water supplies — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change isn’t just about extreme heat and rising sea levels—another side effect of greenhouse gas emissions is intense rainfall. Enter rainwater harvesting. All that water needs to go somewhere ...

Rainwater is going to be recycled in several Erie County locations, substituting the millions of gallons of potable water that municipalities pay for and use for things like watering public gardens ...

Students for Sustainability hosted an event in the UA Community Garden on Saturday to paint a mural on the side of the garden’s rainwater cistern and to come together as a community. Students for ...