Rain barrels are an effective way to manage and conserve water on your property, but their practicality often means that they end up looking industrial, worn, and overall unappealing most of the time.

Collecting rainwater can conserve water and save you money. The easiest way to collect water from the sky is to set out a bucket and wait for it to start pouring down, but in order to use the water ...

Rain barrels are a great way to save water and money—and making a DIY rain barrel helps you save even more! For each inch of rain that falls on 500 square feet of roof, you can collect 300 gallons of ...

The installed rain barrel was painted brown and fitted with a brass spigot for feeding the garden hose. Putting a scrap lattice on its sides isn’t necessary, but does make the setup look more ...

Making a rain barrel at home is simpler than you might expect and rewarding for multiple reasons. First, it's a great way to be more sustainable in your backyard and reduce those water bills, while ...

If you are stuck without rain gutters on your house, dealing with all that water runoff can be a pain—DIY web site Instructables has a guide to creating a gutter-free rain barrel so you can put that ...

RAIN BARREL WORKSHOPS: Participants in upcoming DIY Rain Barrel Workshops learn how to construct a closed 55-gallon rain barrel system that can be easily attached to any standard residential downspout ...

YORK, Pa. — Pennsylvania is fortunate to have a large resource of fresh water, but it’s important to conserve, especially during times of drought. Jodi Sulpizio, a natural resource educator with the ...

Here in Michigan City, Ind., the city recently supplied residents with 96-gallon trash bins for use with the new power lifts the city installed on its trash trucks. This left many of us with a surplus ...

Rain barrels are an inexpensive way to conserve water in your landscape. They are typically used in conjunction with your gutter system to capture rainwater from the roof and store it for later use.