You can’t stop the rain from falling, but you can control some of the water by using gutters, downspouts and drainage pipes. Here’s a brief primer on gutters and water control. Copper and wood ...

The cistern was installed last autumn so it could be filled with this spring’s rain. We are able to check the water level in the cistern by putting a premeasured board into the tank’s top opening.

Brock Dolman signs off his e-mails this way: "Mostly Water, Brock." He considers storm water a crop to harvest just like sugar snap peas. He talks about how sediment running off a landscape into a ...

Since then, the cistern has harvested over 30,000 gallons of water, according to ecology and evolutionary biology and environmental science senior Trevor Ledbetter, one of the UASFS co-directors.