Cisterns range from rain barrels used for gardening to underground chambers that supply a home’s plumbing system. Water from a cistern is only suitable to drink if it has been filtered first.

Want to save on your water bills? Try a simple trick with a plastic bottle. Place it in the toilet cistern to significantly ...

Just as it’s essential to have a smoke detector in each of your home’s bedrooms and common areas, you’d be wise to install leak detectors in places where water damage could start ...

Storm water charges have been a political lightning rod in recent years, alternatively labelled a "roof tax" or "rain tax" by ...

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Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.

Their descendants adopted similar orientation and other urban-planning strategies, and adobe homes ... water. Runoff from rainfall was collected throughout the roof and directed to cisterns.

Traditionally, most homes heated their water using their existing ... to help save on your water heating If your hot water cistern is very old, consider replacing it with a modern insulated ...

As climate change brings water shortages to vacation hot spots, we look at Greece’s tourism-dependent islands, where ...

When a fire engulfed a house in the Black Forest neighborhood of Wissler's Ranch in 2017, the development's three 10,000-gallon water cisterns built in the 1990s were tested and failed ...

The First Nations Clean Water Act could help in coming years, though questions remain among community members.