Free Water: Simple Act Helps Save the Environment Andri Antoniades - TakePart
go to original April 7, 2013

Discover how to sustainably harvest 100,000 gallons of rainwater per year in your own back yard, by visiting Brad Lancaster in an urban desert as he reduces environmental and financial costs and produces free resources. (Focus Forward Films)

The Colorado River has been in peril for decades. Dried up and over-tapped, the waterway is a skeleton of its formerly robust self, due in no small part to the multitude of communities who rely on it as their main water source.

Tucson is one of those cities; despite being located 300 miles away, the urban center relies on the Colorado for the bulk of its water. The canal that carries that water from the river to the city, is the largest consumer of electricity in the entire state of Arizona, and - to no one’s surprise - also the largest emitter of carbon.

Surely there has to be a better way for Southwestern residents to cull usable water without depleting resources or eroding the environment - and there is. It’s ridiculously simple: It’s rain.

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