Metal Bowl and Galvanized Pail Tarp Rain Water Harvest

As I started down the path of rescuing rain water in large tarps lining hand-dug pond pits, it became immediately clear that the strategy would have to develop to actually harvest the water wouldn't be as straight forward as I'd hoped. I learned a lot of hard lessons along the way over the past few years, some of them cost a small amount of money, some of them almost cost me my life from exertion injuries. The journey has really been all about finding a balance between electricity, machines, mechanical tools, and the mechanics of the human body. At the smallest scale, we can always harvest water with two cupped hands. It was a profound experience for me to do just that the first time I captured rain water in a pond pit on my land. I started it using a metal bowl to collect the water and transfer from one container to the next until it got to the long term storage tanks. Scaling up from cupped hands to various electrically powered pumps, to later innovations has been very interesting in terms of learning the pros and cons of various methods. I supposed I could say it all started here with the metal bowl.