We all drink and use Rain, that is our planet.
How most of us in America walk over to the sink, turn on the water, flush the toilet, or turn on the garden hose, no thought, it always works.
Water, the blood of life, can’t live with out it and we sure love to play in it.
Here on our farm, we catch the rain. It is the only way we can live here. The Big Island has a water system; it is just not available to many people living off the main roads. The more you can store, the better off you are. We have about 11,000 gallons in four tanks. If it does not rain, we use up 3000 gallons of our water in a month. If we are in coffee picking season, our processing pulper will drink up almost every drop.
Fortunately it rains, most of the time. We get on average over 100 inches a year. Collecting and running off the roofs of two houses, we can fill all the tanks in a very short rain cycle. Some rains we classify as END OF THE WORLD RAIN, scary it rains so much in a short time.
So we have no water bill, we use as much as we want, and then the rain God turns it off. We wait and pray for rain. It looks like it is going to rain, a few drops, maybe tomorrow? The tanks run low; we turn transfer valves, still no rain. We drain the swimming pool to flush toilets, keep the garden growing, and make phone calls for water delivery, no luck.
We lock the doors, turn off the lights and go on vacation to a place that when you hear it is going to rain, you change plans, grab an umbrella, flush a toilet, wash the dog, or take a long hot shower.
I will never say a bad thing about a rainy day.
Water Water everywhere, not a drop to drink.
