Rain+Barrels+(John+Harper)

"We all know that when it rains, it pours" (GREENCulture Products 2007)

A rain barrel is used for collecting rain water to keep for the future instead of wasting money by using water from your house. The rain barrel is placed next to your house and when a rainfall occurs, the rain flows from the gutter into the barrel providing water when needed.([|www.composters.com] 2007).
 * What is it? **

The use of rain barrels are trying to address the amount of money used on water consumption. By harvesting rain water to use in practical ways like watering you garden or grass, it saves a lot of money due to water usage. By using saved rain water, your annual water bill during the spring and summer time goes down drastically.  This is a 214 lbs. rain barrel. This is what it will look like attached to a gutter. It is useful whenever it rains because the water just flows right into the barrel. You actually use the water only during the spring and summer time because the water saved is used for watering plants or grass. ([|www.composters.com] 2007).
 * __What problems it is addressing? __**
 * __When is it useful?__**

The rain barrels deal with the water because rain is going to keep falling in the barrel to do previous steps of the cycle. When the water from the barrel is used, an amount of that water will also be evaporated, condensed, then fall again.
 * __Water Cycle __**

This does not help protect the biosphere because the water has nothing to do with it. Rain barrels are used mostly to save money by saving rain water which will eventually be used. Nothing in that process can help protect the biosphere. 
 * __Biosphere__**

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This video is a prime example of how the rain barrel works and is good for yourself and the environment.(Youtube 2009).

Because water is an abundant resource, it will not run out if a lot of people use the rain barrels. Also the water is eventually being used and to help water the plants or flowers of someone’s garden. So therefore this no consequences to the environment by using rain barrels. (Rain barrel by //Aquabarrel. 2007).//
 * __Environment__**



This is a diagram of a rain barrel and how it works.

Electric cars (Matthew Steven Pestotnik)

(2007, September 10). //Rain Barrels by Aquabarrel - rainbarrel//. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ndwzVu8Pw

(2007). //Rain Barrels//. Retrieved from http://www.composters.com/rain-barrels.php

(n.d.). //Best Management Practices for Reducing Stormwater Pollution//. Retrieved from http://www.town-menasha.com/CDWeb/Planning/Stormwater/BMPs.htm