light sprinkle for a short length of time would not fill up the bucket. our bucket would be under exposed.
here is another scenario. this time lets assume that there is a steady rain. if we have a wide bucket, we won’t need to leave it out for long to collect a gallon of rain. however, if we put out a skinny, tall one-gallon bucket in the same rain, it will take much longer to fill the bucket up.
lastly, let’s fix the time we leave the buckets outside. to collect one gallon of water we could put the wide, shallow bucket out in a light rain. or, we could put the 