By Allison Arieff, Sunset editor-at-large

I love the Rainwater HOG. It's so simple: just a modular tank to catch and store rainwater. But no one has really marketed such a thing before. It's designed to be used in multiple locations throughout your house and surrounding property. It can be positioned vertically, along the side of your home...

or horizontally, below your porch or deck...

Solutions like this are brilliant. Designer Sally Dominguez created the Rainwater HOG to serve an elemental purpose: rainwater that's collected can be used for drinking, flushing toilets, washing clothes, or watering your garden. The object itself is simple and discrete, so much so that it's distributed through Design Within Reach.

Once Ms. Dominguez and DWR can figure out how to bring the price down a bit as it's $450 per 47-gallon storage unit, I see no reason why every household wouldn't have a Rainwater HOG.