Rainwater Harvesting

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 [...]

April 24, 2012 The Hays Consolidated Independent School District was selected as one of the winners of the Texas Water Development Board Rain Catcher Award for 2011. IWS designed and installed [...]

May 4, 2011 Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake was selected as one of the winners of the Texas Water Development Board Rain Catcher Award for 2010. IWS designed and installed [...]