How to Safely and Legally Capture the Rain - Installing Rain Barrels. Susan Kroll wasn't squeamish about installing a rain barrel.
Having lived in Thailand, where huge, impressive rain jars abound as part of an ancient tradition of capturing water from the sky, she hardly worried about turning her home into a scene out of Dogpatch, adorned with an old oak barrel rotting amid algae and mosquitoes. After moving to the Pacific Northwest, she grabbed the chance to install a new 55-gallon plastic cistern in the home she rented, finding rain harvesting no less appealing in the temperate-forest "drizzle capital" of Bellingham, Wash., than in the tropical forests of Thailand. Solar Panels, Pallets and Solar Kits. Wildroots Earthskills Homestead.