We are under 20 gallons per day per person. The Riot4Austerity goal is 10 gallons per person per day. The almost 20 gallons we use includes some outdoor watering and some for my work as a costumer. Textiles is a water intensive profession so we are proud to be as close as we are.
Earlier we talked about how to make your own rain barrel. The rain barrel project was easy to do, and it was very exciting to see how quickly the barrels filled up when it rained. Unfortunately, it was also a bit disappointing to see how quickly those sixty-five gallons of water were used up watering the yard when the rain stopped. C
Greg really wanted our son to have a lawn to on play in the summer. When we bring out the sprinkler in the summer for some relief on the hottest days, our back yard just turned into a mud bowl so he finally got me to agree on putting in grass.
We have been planning on setting up rain barrels in our yard for some time now, but it was the recent weather report, predicting one more rainshower, that spurred us to get moving in time to catch it.
