Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks | 
|  | | | Title: | Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (Vol. 2): Water-Harvesting Earthworks | | Author: | Brad Lancaster | | Publisher: | Rainsource Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 July, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0977246418 / 9780977246410 | | List Price: | $32.95 | | You Save: | $10.08 | | Amazon Price: | $22.87 | |
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Turn water scarcity into water abundance! 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 2 builds on the information presented in volume 1, showing you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations on a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and graywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to fit the unique requirements of your site. Real-life stories and examples permeate this volume.
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• We Should All Do Our Share 28 August, 2008
Interesting reading on a subject we should all learn about. If you just use the rainwater for gardens and lawns it is a step in the right direction. I am moving to a part of Panama that has a great deal of rain but no real water system. We have to improvise our own. I am planning on using all the ideas I can from this book.
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• A Great "how To" Guide For Landscape Water Conservation 12 September, 2008
This book deserves to be widely read, not just for people in the desert. I live in a region that gets nearly 45" of rainfall per year, and I can't wait to apply some of what I've learned from this great "how to" manual. Fresh water is a vanishing resource on our planet, and when we send it all down the storm drains, it makes its way from storm drain to stream to river to ocean: gone. To keep from draining our aquifers, we need to capture that water in our landscape, so it can percolate back into the earth, or be used by our plants.
My first project will be to divert some of the runoff from our blacktop driveway into an "infiltration basin", where it can be used by my trees and shrubs, and soak into the earth. "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2" shows you how to do this, step by step, and also tells you how to build the simple but effective specialized tools you'll need (such as a "bunyip water level", so you know BEFORE a washout rainstorm where the water will flow).
Other topics include systems of berms and basins; terraces; diversion swales; check basins; and french drains. There are many helpful drawings throughout (whimsical but clear!).
If you're interested in water conservation, this book is for you. It's a tour-de-force on the subject of capturing and using rainwater and runoff in the landscape.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1RWNNKEBT0S1J
• The Definitive Water Harvesting Manual 29 September, 2008
I teach water harvesting and watershed restoration at a local college, and this book, along with volume 1, is my primary resource when it comes to water storage in the soil. Absolutely a must for anyone seeking to make full use of the water that falls on their land.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AXT8UOYGG91X7
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