Based in Los Angeles, California, the environmental organization's primary purpose has been to educate communities on the planting and care of trees and to work with government agencies on issue No. 1 ...

Has your interest in alternative water systems made you ask, what is a cistern? Read on to learn about this ancient way to store and supply water.

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 ...

Many U.S. and Canadian regions are now welcoming fall rains – a much needed seasonal change for dry and arid regions that battle annual drought and water shortages.

According to the ARCSA’s website, www.arcsa.org, the Old Testament mentions cisterns at least 10 times, and rainwater harvesting systems in the Middle East date to 5,000 years ago. In the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than half a dozen additional schools in the San Francisco Unified School District are now capturing and reusing rainwater. Seven schools will get cisterns to capture rainwater this year, the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Marc Bedner shakes his head in disbelief while standing by his two rain-catching cisterns placed at an outside ...