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As we all know, living in the Cannon River Watershed comes with a special responsibility to protect our beautiful water ...
As of May 2025, nearly 99% of Florida is experiencing drought, making this one of the driest years since 2008, according to the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network. The signs are obvious: ...
Lucknow: In a crucial step towards water conservation, the Yogi Adityanath govt, through housing development authorities, is ...
Located in south-western Jordan, Sela is also characterised by a hundred of cisterns, water reservoirs, both perforated or carved into the sandstone, presumably filled with rainwater through surface ...
Scott Mencke built three cisterns in his backyard for rainwater harvesting. The biggest holds 3,000 gallons.
Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant and Sound Rivers are transforming campuses across the county through construction of rain gardens, bioswales, constructed wetlands and rainwater harvesting cisterns.
Rain flows from your roof into your gutters. The gutters drain to downspouts, which pipe into a cistern (a water tank). An overflow pipe prevents the cistern from collecting too much water.
Large cisterns like this one in Xochicalco, a Teotihuacan community in what is now Mexico, were used to capture and store rainwater (Image credit: Adriana Zuniga) ...
“ After my children grew up, we started to rely on water trucking – but the prices are exorbitant. We had to save up money and sometimes had to choose between buying water or food.” The village’s ...
Learning Tree Farm uses cisterns to collect rainwater from a barn that was originally built to dry tobacco in the 1800s. Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate ...
A sign in front of the cisterns at Learning Tree Farm explains how rainwater harvesting plays an integral role in regenerative farming. Just down the road, at the Montgomery Soil & Water Conservation ...