This fact is not at all surprising: as I explained in an April blog post titled "Rain barrells: What's hype and what's helpful", here on the upper Texas coast, we do not have a water supply problem. What we have is a water storage and distribution problem. It's a problem that rainwater capture could alleviate, and for less money than you might think, as this local businessman has now aptly demonstrated.
Still, the use of tanks and cisterns is a new (well, revived such that it appears new) idea, and it will take a while to catch on and gain acceptance. Personally, I have not yet been able to obtain spousal approval to install that 300 gallon tank that I've been jonesing for, a la Dallas Morning News writer Erin Covert. But the negotiations continue and meanwhile, as an alternate strategy, I'm contemplating expanding into a fleet of Systerns, of which I still only have our original lonesome singleton (and I've really disliked hobbling through this nasty summer with just one to fall back on):
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| "Cuz I ain't got nobody Nobody cares for me, nobody! nobody cares for me I'm so sad and lonely Sad and lonely, sad and lonely Won't some sweet mama come and take a chance with me? Cuz I ain't so bad Sad and lonesome all the time" --From "I Ain't Got Nobody" as re-done by David Lee Roth. |
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