{"id":1314,"date":"2014-08-05T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/?page_id=1314"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:29:17","slug":"cisterns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/protecting-water-quality-at-home\/sustainable-landscaping\/cisterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you really want to get serious about collecting and using rain water, you can install a larger tank, or cistern, that holds several hundred gallons of water and uses a small pump to distribute the water in the yard and garden. \u00a0You will be able to store more water during the rainy season and it will be available during periods of low rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources to help you get started:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.cas.psu.edu\/WaterResources\/pdfs\/RainCistern.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainwater Cisterns: Design, Construction and Water Treatment<\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Penn State Cooperative Extension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edis.ifas.ufl.edu\/pdffiles\/AE\/AE02900.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cisterns To Collect Non-Potable Water For Domestic Use<\/a>. University of Florida Extension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.org\/consumer-resources\/green-living\/rainwater-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Sanitation Foundation<\/a>\u00a0information on rainwater collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really want to get serious about collecting and using rain water, you can install a larger tank, or cistern, that holds several hundred gallons of water and uses a small pump to distribute the water in the yard and garden. \u00a0You will be able to store more water during the rainy season and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"parent":274,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1314\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/safewater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}