6 Methods for Harvesting Rainwater

By Kelly Coyne And Erik Knutzen
Published on April 30, 2014
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Building your own water barrel is one method for harvesting rainwater that is sure to lead to a more sustainable urban homestead.
Building your own water barrel is one method for harvesting rainwater that is sure to lead to a more sustainable urban homestead.
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"The Urban Homestead," authored by professed city dwellers Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, is an illustrated guide that proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet.

Written for city dwellers by city dwellers, The Urban Homestead (Process Media, 2010) is an illustrated instruction guidebook for the homesteading movement. Kelly Croyne and Erik Knutzen show how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without resorting to toxins and raise animals in your own backyard. This excerpt from “Be Your Own Utility”  gives six of the best methods for harvesting rainwater, as well as instructions on how to build your own water barrel.

After conservation, the second step toward water independence is harvesting rainwater. The number of ways you can go about this might surprise you.

Six Methods for Harvesting Rainwater

Rainwater harvesting is an easy and positive course of action for people in nearly every climate in the world. Living in a dry place such as the desert southwest may make it seem more urgent, but no matter where we live, rainwater harvesting is a positive step toward changing our attitude toward the water that falls for free from the sky. Rainwater can be sent to where nature intended it to go — to the soil.

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