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Collect rainwater

Writer Sharon Astyk suggests that you build a rainwater catchment system with your Stimulus Package check. "Make sure you have water. You can't grow food, wash, or live without it. Make sure you have a reliable source of water in the future. That could mean a well with a manual pump, or a cistern, a rainbarrel set up, a spring, solar direct pumping, or a public resource - perhaps a pump in a park or at the local school that can supply the community when the power is out," she writes. You can buy rain barrels for between $109 and $400 here.

sarah gilbert

18/04/08