That piddley rain we had the other night, which didn’t count as any measurable rain to the National Weather Service, nearly filled a whole rain barrel. It stopped just short of the overflow hose to barrel #2. Take a moment to think about that. It counted as “no rain,” and yet here I am with nearly 50 gallons of free water that ran off from one corner of my house roof.
This is why rain catchment and rain gardens are important. This is why some places pass laws making it illegal to catch the rain that falls onto the land you own. Water utilities cost more in the summer.
This is why if Las Vegas, NV and San Jose, CA worked on un-paving and catchment, if they caught and stored the rain that falls on their cities instead of forcing most of it to run-off, both locations could catch enough rain every year for their annual needs.
Get rain barrels and cisterns and catch water. Learn how to garden and landscape to harvest rain and get it to soak into the ground instead of running off to storm drains.











