A reader’s question the other day reminded me that we haven’t posted much on rainwater harvesting. This is a very important topic that will likely become even more pressing in the future as groundwater sources dwindle and become polluted, are taken over by big corporations and as population increases. Rainwater harvesting includes roofwater capture and strategies to efficiently utilize rainwater that falls on your landscape. Brad Lancaster’s award winning books are probably the best, most thorough on the subject. They’ve even been translated into Arabic.
“Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, is the core of the complete 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 access your on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), gives you a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and empowers you with guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan specific to your site and needs. Clearly written with more than 40 photos and 115 illustrations, this volume helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, 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!”
Source: Harvesting Rainwater.com
An interview with author Brad Lancaster.
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I badly need these documents.
You can order these books at http://greenhomebuilding.com/conservewater.htm#Rainwater
Rainwater harvesting is a good idea. When living in Papua New Guinea we used to harvest rainwater off our roof into a large tank and that was our drinking water. It was the cleanest available water. Some of your readers might enjoy reading a few energy efficiency tips I have put together as follows….Energy Conservation
Brad’s books are fantastic!
I saw his presentation at a Natural Building Colloquium and was really impressed with what he had to say.