How About Those Rain Barrels?
All last night as the rain fell down, it ran down our roof, into our gutters and down our driveway. I could faintly hear what sounded like an overflowing bucket, but dismissed it. What I had forgotten was the fact that our household had recently set up a rain barrel to catch the rain coming from the gutters.
“What are rain barrels?” one might ask. Rain barrels are containers that catch falling rain, and then you can store the water to use to water your garden, wash your car, or whatever your outdoor watering needs might be. The rain barrels are especially helpful in the hot dry months when you might not see a rain storm for weeks at a time.
With the rising price of water, increase in droughts, more instances of water pollution, and our population explosion, we need to conserve this precious resource. I’m sure that I’ve mentioned this on many blog entries, but we need water to live. Water is essential. If everyone were to change the way they looked at their daily habits, they might find that there is some room for change. The smallest changes can make all the difference. Even with something as minor as a rain barrel, that can hold up to 75 gallons of water. That is 75 more gallons that you aren’t drawing out of your pipes.
The next time you hear the drips from a rain storm, take a look out your window or step outside and imagine all of that water running down the sidewalks and into the gutter put to good use in your garden.