Does Brewton Have Water Woes?

This map shows that water is an issue in South Alabama, but all you really need to do is look out the window at the brown grass right? Where do you get your water? Do you use city water to spray your garden daily? How much does it cost you? 

How about using the rain water we get during the spring, what happens to all that water anyway? And how about the summer rains we get from passing tropical storms coming up from the gulf? Have you ever thought about trapping that water and using it on your vegetables? It's really easy, free, and will eventually save you money! 

So how do you do it? Stay tuned for some tips and tricks for easy home water harvesting...

Drought Monitor can be found here with updates daily.

So to get you started with some good reading the Texas Water Development Board has come up with a very in-depth pamphlet on water harvesting in their state, I can't find anything like it for Alabama yet, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere. For now though take a look at this and I will have some practical tips in the next post.