Ken Padgett

  We are expecting a very wet winter this year in Southern California and it would be a shame to let all that free water go down the drain. Here's all the info you need to install and apply for the rebates on rain barrels: Where to buy: http://www.hayneedle.com/product/rainwizard50gallonrainbarrelurn.cfm Note that the prices vary quite a bit depending on what color barrel you choose. The barrel comes with a hose bib (spigot) on the front so you can use a hose with it. You'll note from the picture that I have placed the barrel on some blocks to elevate it so that I can also fill a watering can from the spigot. https://www.gutterworks.com/shop-online/2x3-offset-diverter The offset diverter allows you to control whether the water goes into the barrel or into the downspout. It's not a necessity, but it's best if you don't allow the first water that comes off your roof when it starts raining to go into the barrel.     I bought the other downsp...

"Having a dirty car and a brown lawn should be a badge of honor because it shows you care about your community," -- Felicia Marcus, the CA State Water Resources Control Board chairwoman, as they prepare to impose $500 fines for anything they define as wasting water.  If every one of us completely stopped using water in our personal lives, it would not come close to making up the shortage being felt by agriculture....mainly because of the wasteful way California farmers use water.  Drive through the Central Valley in the middle of summer and you will see huge sprinklers spraying water in the middle of the day and fields being flooded­­­ in the process, losing huge amounts of water to evaporation. Very few crops and very little acreage is watered with drip irrigation in California compared to other arid regions of the world. The current state of affairs is the fault of both parties who are under the control of huge corporate farms. The farmers who control both...