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As industrial demand and drought threaten Ohio water supplies, Alan Miller shares how his family is preparing.

I find all the recent interest in "rain barrels" hilarious. When I was growing up in the parched barrio known as Boston Heights -- aka the land ground water and city water forgot -- we and all of our ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — There has been a lot of rain around the Cape Fear today. But that’s good news for the latest project at Fire Station 10 on Oleander Drive in Wilmington. A cistern was recently ...

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 ...

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 ...