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Rainwater Harvesting – Are we facing increasing future water shortages?

Clean, fresh waterThe short answer… If human daily living habits around the world don’t change for the better, absolutely.

Now for the longer one… When most of us think of collecting rainwater, we might think of weathered oak barrels with rusty metal bands sitting at the corner of a an old barn – right next to the hitchin’ post. While it’s true that the practice of conserving rainwater dates back to forever ago, it’s not a practice we’ve seen much of in the past few decades in the U.S. Over time, our country’s population has come to take clean water for granted. However, this is proving to be a dangerous stance.

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