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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is followed by a person costumed as a drop of water as he arrives for a press conference to announce a pilot program to capture rainwater from residential rooftops and return it into the ground rather than into sewers, at a private home in Los Angeles, California on November 4, 2015. The hi-lo-tech drought solution at Wassenaar's single-family home, which includes a rain-capturing roof, the 1,320-gallon smart cistern and a rain garden for directing the cistern's overflow into the ground, is the first pilot site in a set of residential installations unveiled today by the Greater Los Angeles Water Collaborative as part of the “StormCatcher Project”. The project aims to retrofit private homes to direct rain from the roof into large tanks that can be monitored and controlled electronically. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP Photo)
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