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  • Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape

    linked to by 1 published by Rainsource Press on Sun 1st Jan 06
    Brad Lancaster

    • self sufficiency
    • brad lancaster
    • campfire
    • rainwater harvesting
    • water
    • environment/sustainability
    • cistern

    ISBN 097724640X

    Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape is the first volume of three-volume guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs.

    Volume 1 helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same!

     
  • Posts discussing this item

    • Eight Principles for Successful Rainwater Harvesting

      posted to The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future on Wed 29th Jul 09

      The following is a guest post by Brad Lancaster on rainwater harvesting, that I posted about a year ago. Energy scarcity and water scarcity are closely related phenomena, especially in certain parts of the world. While rainwater harvesting is no panacea for

    • Eight Principles for Successful Rainwater Harvesting

      posted to The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future on Wed 29th Jul 09

      The following is a guest post by Brad Lancaster on rainwater harvesting, that I posted about a year ago. Energy scarcity and water scarcity are closely related phenomena, especially in certain parts of the world. While rainwater harvesting is no panacea for

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