Oooooh! LOL. Here we call them "rain barrels." They only became legal in my state last year or the year before. They were banned because in the desert west "water rights" are a hot topic and even though it's much more conservatism to use them, the argument was that if you didn't have water rights to your property, then any rainfall belonged downstream, to whoever had water rights. Which meant that people were draining the aquifer to water their yards so that the rainfall could maybe make it down the sewer? It was really twisted logic.
Sounds about right! I think we call them rain barrels too, in some parts of the country. It's a bit daft, really, even if you had a set of the larger ones, they still wouldn't have sufficient capacity to hold the amount of rain we have in winter ... and in the summer, in a dry spell, they only hold enough for a week or two. In my house they only take the water from the porch roof and the roof over the lean-to. Rainwater from the main roof goes down a drain set in the middle of the roof and running through the inside of the back of the house (in 1973, when the house was built, it was considered an innovation)! I suppose any little helps, though.
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Oooooh! LOL. Here we call them "rain barrels." They only became legal in my state last year or the year before. They were banned because in the desert west "water rights" are a hot topic and even though it's much more conservatism to use them, the argument was that if you didn't have water rights to your property, then any rainfall belonged downstream, to whoever had water rights. Which meant that people were draining the aquifer to water their yards so that the rainfall could maybe make it down the sewer? It was really twisted logic.
Sounds about right! I think we call them rain barrels too, in some parts of the country. It's a bit daft, really, even if you had a set of the larger ones, they still wouldn't have sufficient capacity to hold the amount of rain we have in winter ... and in the summer, in a dry spell, they only hold enough for a week or two. In my house they only take the water from the porch roof and the roof over the lean-to. Rainwater from the main roof goes down a drain set in the middle of the roof and running through the inside of the back of the house (in 1973, when the house was built, it was considered an innovation)! I suppose any little helps, though.