“When it rains an inch,” Andy Lipkis says, “Los Angeles hemorrhages 7.6 billion gallons of water.” Part of the solution to the water crisis, he says, is collecting as much rainwater as possible because “it represents half or more of all the water we need in this big city.” Lipkis and the TreePeople imagine a time when as many as a million homes and businesses have rainwater cisterns all electronically networked and ready to provide treated drinking water to the public.

Tree People Rain Water as a Resource

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