Patrick Dove/San Angelo Standard-Times via AP
Mary Kniffen moves her plants into the barn that houses several 3000-gallon tanks used to store rainwater near Menard, Tex. Kniffen and her husband Billy, an AgriLife Extension state water resource specialist, live completely on captured rainwater.
I'm guessing that most homeowners in Texas don't have the room for tanks like these, but it certainly says something that a state water resource specialist is living only on rainwater.
The San Angelo Standard-Times has their story.
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She would die of thirst if she tried that in the Texas Panhandle! Good work though!