Welcome to Rainwater Harvesting and Management!

We’re happy you’re here!

We’re Plenitud Puerto Rico, a 501c3 non-profit educational farm and teaching center dedicated to service, sustainability, and community.

Through service, we find our greatest joy by giving equal value to the needs of others. Through sustainability, we help each other be more resilient and prepared for increasing global challenges, while minimizing our impact on Mother Earth. And through community, we see how much stronger we are together, unified in our shared purpose. We ground all of our programs and initiatives in this mission. 

Our work helps facilitate the skills, knowledge, and inspiration needed to encourage inner growth and to live in harmony with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. More specifically, we aspire to help people acquire skills in sustainable technologies that can help them serve their communities in the areas of food, housing and water security, which we practice by organizing a variety of educational experiences.

Our program, Agua Segura (Water Security), has raised awareness about simple and affordable technologies in passive and active water harvesting that can increase and maintain access to clean and drinkable water.  The information in this course on Rainwater Harvesting and Management is inspired and informed by the Agua Segura program. We will teach you the basics of how to build these systems in your own community by using a combination of recordings, articles, and activity sheets. You will explore the science behind the water system, the politics of water distribution, the importance of water to ways of life, practical, step-by-step instructions on how to build your own active and passive water catchment systems, and how to safely filter and use the water you harvest in everyday life, as well as in emergency situations.

If you have any trouble navigating the course, please contact Nissa Coit at ecogather@sterlingcollege.edu.