Rainwater Harvesting

The Hennigan Residence in San Antonio, Texas received the 2017 Rain Catcher Award from the Texas Water Development Board in the Residential – Single Family category. Innovative Water [...]

The Sycamore Springs Elementary / Middle School of the Dripping Springs ISD received the 2017 Rain Catcher Award from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) for the Educational/Governmental – [...]

I had a great opportunity to discuss the tips and tricks of planning rainwater harvesting systems with Tom Spencer from Central Texas Gardener on KLRU Austin. The focus of the interview was [...]

While most of our residential rainwater harvesting systems installation involve a simple procedure for getting the rainwater harvesting cistern into place, we have had a few projects over the [...]

While there are many parts of a rainwater harvesting system, the cistern is always the centerpiece.  The construction of corrugated metal cisterns is a fascinating art as witnessed in the video [...]

Rainwater harvesting is defined by Wikipedia as “the accumulation and deposition of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.” While this definition is basic, the [...]

October 6, 2015 ENR (Engineer News-Record) Texas & Louisiana announced the winners in the 2015 Best Projects competition and Bartlett Cocke won in the Best Green Project division for Dearing [...]

First, let’s explore some of the semantics of rainwater harvesting.  Rain barrel, as defined by rainwater harvesting professionals, are rainwater storage containers in the 50 to 250 gallon [...]

May 5, 2015 The City of Austin Twin Oaks Library was selected as one of the winners of the Texas Water Development Board Rain Catcher Award for 2014. IWS originally installed the rainwater [...]

May 5, 2015 The Oohla Bean Bed & Breakfast was selected as one of the winners of the Texas Water Development Board Rain Catcher Award for 2014. IWS designed and installed the rainwater [...]