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Click on “Download PDF” for the PDF version or on the title for the HTML version. If you are not an ASABE member or if your employer has not arranged for access to the full-text, Click here for options. Roll Out the Rain BarrelPublished by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org Citation: TMDL 2010: Watershed Management to Improve Water Quality Proceedings, 14-17 November 2010 Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland USA 711P0710cd.(doi:10.13031/2013.35789)Authors: Stacie L Minson, James A Leiker Keywords: KEYWORDS: Rainfall, Rain Barrel, Landscape, Water Conservation, Urban Storm Water Pollution Management, TMDL, Community, Best Management Practices, Water Conservation Our ancestors understood the importance and value of rain water. They used old buckets, wooden barrels, bathtubs, and pots to capture it. Later, they used it for purposes that citizens today take for granted drinking, bathing, and washing dishes and clothes. If capturing rain water worked for our ancestors, why not revisit the concept and make it innovative to urban storm water pollution management. (Download PDF) (Export to EndNotes)
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