How I am Beating Drought with Harvested Rainwater
It's drought in the Philippines and it is giving farmers woes and headaches. Crops are dying so are livestock especially chicken. Even fishes are dying. Many farmers cannot plant. Fifteen women and young men we are training on sustainable gardening cannot plant because there is no water. Some people with water pumps say they don't get enough water from underneath the ground.In my house, I am dealing with the drought with harvested rainwater I saved last year when typhoons hit our place. I harvest water from the sky.
Not many know that there are two types of water--greenwater and bluewater. Greenwater are those that come from lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, brooks and waterholes. Bluewater is rain. Most of green water is wasted and spent unwisely. But only few people harvest rainwater which is abundant every rainy season.
I have some 3,000 plastic bottles filled with rainwater. I estimate my harvested rainwater to be about 1,000 liters. This water is supporting my beans and pumpkin crops.
I recommend people to harvest rainwater during rainy days and store them. It may not only save their crops. One day, it may be their lives.
For ways on how to harvest rainwater, write me at michaelbengwayan@hotmail.com
