The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...

I’ve said in this space before that it’s pretty silly that we flush our toilets and water our landscaping with drinking water. That notion is catching on as rainwater capture and reuse gains momentum.

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 ...

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 ...