 I often hear people talk about feeling overwhelmed or underprepared to create positive change in their community. The concept of Praktivism was born out of a response to that feeling. Praktivism is not about telling people what's wrong with the world, it's about collaborating to envision a better future and then building it together. My name is Lonnie. I have the incredible luck of working with Praktivistas all over the world. As you know, the problems we're facing are myriad and at times overwhelming. Many of those problems involve water, such as water scarcity, waterborne illness, drought, pollution, ownership, and just distribution. Water's human right and it's often a fight. One of the solutions is for individuals and communities to collect their own rainwater. So we made a book on it. To Catch the Rain documents the stories of communities, schools, and individuals taking back the water by building their own systems. These are mostly personal stories from those communities of Praktivistas I've had the luck to work with. You can read this book at home for the inspiring stories. You can use this in your classroom as part of your curriculum. It even includes problem sets if you like that sort of thing. You can use this in your community as a manual to create your own unique system. Plus, the details and processes in the book are expanded well beyond rainwater and catchment, helping you go further down the path of the Praktivista. We still need your help bringing this book to a physical reality and especially in bringing it to a more global audience. To that end, we're raising money for design, distribution, and translation. Spanish will be up first with its half a billion native speakers. And if we reach that goal, Kiswahili will be next. We have great translators with a history of working with Praktivistas already lined up to do this important work. We're proud to have the support of Humboldt State University Press in publishing. Now we just need your financial support to multiply our impact. So further your Praktivism by spreading the word, buying this book, and implementing the knowledge in it to provide clean water for your community.