Brad Lancaster - Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, 1st edition [1 ebook (pdf)]

The award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape, is the first book in a three-volume guide that teaches you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. The lessons in this volume will enable you to assess your on-site resources, give you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empower you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional water-harvesting plan specific to your site and needs.

This revised and expanded second edition increases potential for on-site harvests with more integrated tools and strategies for solar design, a primer on your water/energy/carbon connections, descriptions of water/erosion flow patterns and their water-harvesting response, and updated illustrations to show you how to do it all.

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 encourage you to do the same!

Contents

Cover
Praise for
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
The Eight Principles of Successful Rainwater Harvesting
Contents
List of Illustrations
Boxed Information
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Man Who Farms Water and the Rainwater-Harvesting Guidelines
Chapter 2 - Assessing Your Site's Water Resources
Chapter 3 - Overview: Harvesting Water with Earthworks, Tanks, or Both
Chapter 4 - Integrated Design
Appendix 1 - Patterns of Water Flow and Erosion with Their Potential Water-Harvesting Response
Appendix 2 - Water Harvesting Traditions in the Desert Southwest
Appendix 3 - Water-Harvesting Calculations
Appendix 4 - Example Plant Lists and Water Requirement Calculations for Tucson, Arizona
Appendix 5 - Appendix 5 - Worksheets: Your Thinking Sheets
Appendix 6 - Resources
Appendix 7 - Sun Angles and Path
References
Glossary
Index

Paperback: 193 pages
Publisher: Rainsource Press (2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0977246434
ISBN-13: 978-0977246434