Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man uses water from his shower in a garden in Cape Town, South Africa. Californians faced with new outdoor irrigation ...

Interior designers this season are loving gray, a hue topping many a trend chart. But homeowners concerned about conserving water also are going gray. Only a few years ago, "graywater" systems were ...

Water is a precious resource; conserving it is a key to Earth-friendly gardening. We have been blessed with abundant rainfall, magnificent waterfalls and fast-moving creeks this past winter. But where ...

Every time you take a shower, brush your teeth or do a load of laundry, you're letting water - one of Earth's most precious resources - just swirl down the drain. Instead, what if you reclaimed that ...

Colorado has regulations for gray water systems; La Plata County considering a new ordinance Instead of letting all that water in your washing machine drain to the sewer, why not redirect it to ...

Despite years of drought and conservation mandates, Californians continue to sprinkle a lot of clean, drinkable water onto yards to keep the greenery alive. That's true even on properties that have ...