If you're looking for an effective, sustainable way to reduce your water footprint while maintaining your garden, look no further than a cistern. Cisterns are large water storage tanks similar to rain ...

Water conservation seems increasingly important to my husband and me as we watch large Ohio farmers use water from aquifers to irrigate their fields. Instead of depleting aquifers, we’ve chosen to ...

Some of the best new ideas are old ones. Take the cistern. Basically, it's a man-made receptacle for harvesting rainwater. It's an emerging "green" building trend, but hardly new technology; the ...

Harvesting rain water doesn’t just provide benefits to our plants and gardens, but it takes a little pressure off of our storm water system. Every gallon captured can lessen erosion that occurs during ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - This is the nervous time of year here as spring rains fall and the Cedar River rises. Nearly six years now since the city's historic June 2008 flood disaster, three hard-hit flood ...

DENVER, March 30 (UPI) --More than 300 families on the Navajo Nation reservation have fresh running-water systems for the first time, provided for free, and a non-profit group hopes its delivery model ...

CHEYENNE—The state of Wyoming will sound out Pavillion residents’ opinions later this month on whether to construct a series of water cisterns for households whose groundwater has allegedly been ...

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WATER SYSTEM. The production, purification, and distribution of potable water constitutes a "hidden system" in the infrastructure of the modern city. Until faucets run dry, or reservoirs are exhausted ...