My friend Sarah once decided to “go green” and collect rainwater for her roses. She bought a massive 1,000-liter tank—exactly one cubic meter. She waited for a big storm, and it filled up in one afternoon. She couldn’t believe her eyes.
She told me, “I felt like I had captured a ghost. You see rain, but you never think of it as a heavy, real thing. But when you own a cubic meter of it, you realize how much falls from the sky.” She saved exactly $3.00 on her water bill that month. But she gained a whole new respect for the puddles on her driveway.
Now, every time it rains, she smiles. She knows that cube is real—and it’s free.
