Storing rain water

Capture precious runoff in catch basins, barrels, and cisterns

Over the last couple of years, collecting rain water has become a highly popular method of watering plants. Rain water harvesting, which refers to both collecting and storing rain water, is an easy, convenient, environment-friendly, and sustainable gardening practice. However, an issue that concerns many homeowners is how long is rain water good for plants. Below, I’ll explore if there are limits to how long you can store rain water before it becomes harmful to plants.

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Want to collect rainwater at home and save money on water? Build one of these rainwater harvesting systems at home with barrels or tanks.

Storing water is one of the most important aspects of Emergency Preparedness. We recommend working on storing water at the very beginning of your journey. There are many ways you can store water. Once you’ve stored as much water as you can, you can also look into filtration and purification options. If you’re on a ...

Big, bulky plastic rain barrels have their place, but there’s more than one way to capture and store rainwater, as these 12 innovative and versatile designs and concepts prove. Dual-purpose garden furniture and rain cisterns, personal catchment systems that attach to water bottles, beautiful self-watering planters and towering public installations harvest the most precious resource […]

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Here are the best places to find completely free rainwater harvesting barrels and other rainwater storage containers.

We all know the importance of water in our lives. You don’t even have to be a prepper or survivalist to understand that. We use water in countless ways throughout each and every day of our lives, mostly without giving it a thought. It’s only when that water is hard to come by that most people realize just how precious it really is. We preppers know that and include water storage as a key part of our preps.