RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- As cities across the country figure out solutions to protect the environment, stormwater runoff solutions are becoming more common around town and more and more builders ...

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority captured, treated and reused 812,500 gallons of stormwater last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

Heather Dutra with the City of Raleigh showed us one example outside Walnut Creek Wetland Center - from the cistern collecting rain water to a system across the street, it's designed to collect ...

It's an open-air classroom and environmental laboratory to help residents, students and even researchers learn about stormwater management and sustainable green technologies.

Most water reclamation systems will not provide stormwater detention because a cistern is not designed to release captured water slowly.

“Our dream was to bathe in the river like Parisians used to do 100 years ago,” the city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said in May at the opening of a huge stormwater cistern near to the Austerlitz ...

And as a final safety net to avoid a recurrence of the failed Olympic test events last summer, a huge new stormwater cistern has opened at near Austerlitz station on the eastern edge of central Paris.

North Carolina Cooperative Extension recommends homeowners install rain barrels, or small cisterns, specifically to capture stormwater runoff as a means of watershed protection.

As extreme storms have posed challenges for Minnesota’s stormwater systems in recent years, and with temperatures expected to remain warmer, the state hopes to equip municipal stormwater systems ...

The first uses technology to recapture and store stormwater through water-permeable paving bricks at the top of the site, which drain down to an underground 22,000-gallon cistern.

The remaining three steps are being covered with a combination of sewer system improvements, stormwater storage cisterns, rain gardens, and resiliency parks, many of which have already been built.