Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 1—Marc Bedner shakes his head in disbelief while standing by his two rain-catching cisterns placed at an outside corner of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Have you ever noticed those big cast-iron pipes sticking up out of the ground in various places around the outside of old houses? They're old rainleaders. They took rainwater from the roof and brought ...

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 ...

Aug. 1—Marc Bedner shakes his head in disbelief while standing by his two rain-catching cisterns placed at an outside corner of his home in Eldorado. He glances at the brown tanks, both connected to a ...