Meteorological observers collect rain in raingauges.
If you mean rain gauge, it is used to collect rain and measure how much has fallen. This is how they can say "we received 2 cm of rain"
A bucket or pan or bowl.
Rain barrels are used to collect rainwater from surfaces such as rooftops. After the rainwater has been collected, one may utilize the contents of the rain barrel to water plants, etc.
Collecting water from clouds would be done by waiting for it to rain. However, there are places in the world that collect water from fog. They place fine mesh nets in areas where there is dense fog and then collect the water that condenses off of the nets.
with glass
Meteorological observers collect rain in raingauges.
ferfr
Well, if you want to collect it like you might want to collect rocks or dolls, that won't work very well. If you want to catch it when it falls, then take a container (however big depending on how much you want to catch), put it out in the rain. the... POOF...you have rain water!
If you mean rain gauge, it is used to collect rain and measure how much has fallen. This is how they can say "we received 2 cm of rain"
A bucket or pan or bowl.
It depends how much it has rained
You could put a bottle outside with lines on it and measure the rain fall each day.
To collect and funnel rain water and provide a surface for photosynthesis.
they use a rain gauge and measure the rainfall
Rain barrels are used to collect rainwater from surfaces such as rooftops. After the rainwater has been collected, one may utilize the contents of the rain barrel to water plants, etc.
It depends on how clean the bucket is :)