Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape

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Book Description
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!

About the Author
Brad Lancaster has taught, designed, and consulted on the sustainable design system of permaculture and integrated rainwater harvesting systems since 1993. He lives on the thriving 1/8th-acre urban permaculture site he created in downtown Tucson, Arizona.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape,Brad Lancaster,Chelsea Green Publishing Company,097724640X,Ecology,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Gardening / Horticulture,Landscape,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Science,Water Supply

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