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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape
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Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 577
EAN: 9780977246403
ISBN: 097724640X
Label: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2006-01
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Studio: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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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!
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Summary: Save the World One Drop at a Time
Comment: This book is really good on many different levels. It is written in a engaging and extremely readable style, the illustrations are great, you learn why you should harvest rainwater, and the author illustrates many different designs to harvest rainwater.
What I liked most however, was the theory behind rainwater harvesting and why water should be conserved. In our consumer society we are used to over-extracting and polluting our waters, and instead of changing our lifestyles, policies and habits, we divert water from other locations and people. Yet, Brad points out that we can empower ourselves by protecting, conserving, and cleaning water wihin our lives and landscapes. This create abundance instead of scarcity and "communifies" our water instead of "commodifying" it.
I also liked the chapter to devoted to Mr. Phiri, the legendary Zimbabwean who is known in Africa as "The Man Who Farms Water." Mr. Phiri's work and philosophy "made it all click" for Brad, and his inspiring philosophy and work makes for a great story.
As a fellow rainwater harvester, I think this book is one of a kind and I keep it close at hand on for reference.
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Summary: You're probably better off with volumes 2 and 3
Comment: If you're an absolutely new to rainwater harvesting book, this book may be of some use. But if you understand the basic ideas of rainwater harvesting, I'd skip this book.
Perhaps volumes 2 and 3 are more specific. Volume 1 tells you about the meat, but doesn't give it to you. I suspect the meat (i.e. useful detailed information) is in volumes 2 and 3.
You may prefer Art Ludwig's the New Create an Oasis with Greywater. I found it had the same basic information on rainwater harvesting as Volume 1, but in addition, has detailed information on creating a greywater system.
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Summary: Great water book!
Comment: The author has a really great sense of our water and how we must learn to live within our means. Not just a technical manual but a rationale for changing our water ways.
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Summary: a MUST READ!
Comment: If I had to give up all the books on my shelf, this would be one of the last to go. Not only pertinent to drylands, harvesting rainwater can and should be implemented in any climate. I can only wonder why all buildings and residents don't take collecting rainwater into account. Our landscapes and lives can be greatly enhanced by putting the tools Mr. Lancaster introduces into practice.
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Summary: Not just for drylands
Comment: The concepts described in this book are applicable to all climates. The book is useful to any permaculture practitioner for any climate type. I live in the northeast with 35 inches per year, and it has been helpful to me personally in designing rainwater harvesting systems for my village lot. When is vol. 2 coming out?
I suggest as companion reading "Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks (Paperback) by Art Ludwig; and also his "The New Create an Oasis With Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systms - Includes Branched Drains (Paperback)". Together you can come up with an irrigation plan for a yard anywhere.
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