Water conservation seems increasingly important to my husband and me as we watch large Ohio farmers use water from aquifers to irrigate their fields. Instead of depleting aquifers, we’ve chosen to ...

The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...

Q. I have a serious problem for which no one seems to be able to give me a solution. I have an old, round, 8-foot wide by 9-foot deep cistern in my backyard. It was built of red bricks and holds about ...