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In a city as sensitive to water issues as Tucson this isn't novelty at all. I participated in the student group that helped install cisterns at the UofA visitors center back in 2006 and 2007. We got most of our ideas from a local named Brad Lancaster who'd been doing it far longer.

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Yeah, Tucson takes this sort of thing seriously for a number of reasons, 1) it is small enough (and relatively isolated) that there is a sense of community 2) people are willing to experiment 3) the people that have lived there the longest care deeply about the environment 4) the environment can kill you easily if you are not attentive (lighting strikes, flash floods, africanized bees, and dehydration to name a few) and 5) it gets really freaking hot for 8 months of the year

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