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Article: Free Water From Above ; Environmental Advocacy Group Promoting Use Of Rain Barrels Green Building City Gardener Permaculture
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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For generations, capturing rain was a requisite for people living
in cities and the countryside, a necessity for survival and a key
source for water.
Fritz Schroeder is hoping a new generation of city dwellers will
be willing to see rain as a precious resource and to look at ways to
keep it from simply running into the sewer system.
Schroeder, director of LIVE Green, a local environmental advocacy
group, is organizing two seminars, in September and October, to
introduce local residents to the benefits of adding a rain barrel to
their properties.
Above-ground water reclamation systems such as rain barrels are
becoming more popular throughout the country, Schroeder said,
especially in urban ...