CEDAR RAPIDS - This is the nervous time of year here as spring rains fall and the Cedar River rises. Nearly six years now since the city's historic June 2008 flood disaster, three hard-hit flood ...

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about your retirement cistern. People occasionally bring that article up as having had an influence on their thinking, so I thought I would return to the ...

Howard Truitt, his wife and their two children have been without running water in their Longswamp Township home since the day before Thanksgiving. Their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Amig and Barry ...

DENVER, March 30 (UPI) --More than 300 families on the Navajo Nation reservation have fresh running-water systems for the first time, provided for free, and a non-profit group hopes its delivery model ...

In Western Pennsylvania, coal mining has rendered surface and groundwater supplies unfit, causing rural residents to try to catch rainwater. Rainwater catchment systems are ancient inventions that are ...

This is the story of a man and a pipe, and its consequences could solve a water pollution problem that has plagued this city for more than 100 years. The man is Bart Chezar, Park Slope resident and ...

Have you ever noticed those big cast-iron pipes sticking up out of the ground in various places around the outside of old houses? They're old rainleaders. They took rainwater from the roof and brought ...