For The Associated Press (AP) — Robin Blair does what she can to help her plants thrive. She plants them in good soil and keeps the weeds away. She also waters them regularly with rainwater captured ...

Rain barrels are an effective way to manage and conserve water on your property, but their practicality often means that they end up looking industrial, worn, and overall unappealing most of the time.

Laura Jayne had been waiting a year for a local nonprofit to install a rain barrel at her Hollygrove home. She could use it to grow her budding garden and shave a few dollars off her water bill in the ...

Robin Blair does what she can to help her plants thrive. She plants them in good soil and keeps the weeds away. She also waters them regularly with rainwater captured in barrels in the yard of her ...