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.

Is your toilet leaking? It could be time to replace the cistern. Here's our step-by-step guide on how to do it so you can get ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Limetree’s attorneys charged between $300 and $400 an hour, according to court records. The final bill to overturn the ...

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

I recently wrote about the outside shower on Block Island with the understanding that the iconic outhouse is usually also ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine cistern and one of its most unique historic sites. Constructed in 532 for Justinian I, this sprawling underground water reservoir ...