Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands AND bEYOND

by Lancaster, Brad

• ISBN13: 9780977246403
• ISBN10: 097724640X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Rainsource Pr

Summary

This is Volume One of the three-volume set, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Volume One 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. It's full of stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape will invite you to do the same! Taken together, the complete three-volume set guides you on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Boxed Information	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Foreword	xv
Gary Paul Nabhan
Introduction	1	(1)
My Rainwater-Harvesting Evolution	1	(2)
Who This Book Is For	3	(1)
How To Use This Book and Volumes 2 and 3	3	(3)
The Value of Rainwater	6	(1)
Rainwater Harvesting Through Land and Time	7	(1)
The Shift Away from Rainwater	7	(1)
Scarcity or Abundance	8	(7)
My Community's Path	15	(3)
Our Path to Abundance	18	(2)
Questions and Answers about Rainwater Harvesting	20	(3)
The Man Who Farms Water and the Rainwater-Harvesting Guidelines	23	(18)
The Man Who Farms Rainwater	23	(6)
The Eight Rainwater-Harvesting Principles	29	(9)
Water-Harvesting Ethics	38	(3)
Assessing Your Site's Water Resources	41	(14)
The Hydrologic Cycle---Our Earth's Circulatory System	41	(1)
Watersheds and Subwatersheds---Determining Your Piece of the Hydrologic Cycle	42	(9)
Estimate Your Site's Water Needs	51	(1)
Real Life Example: Living within a Dryland Home's Rainwater Budget	51	(4)
Overview: Harvesting Water with Earthworks, Tanks, or Both	55	(24)
How Do You Plan to Use Your Harvested Water?	55	(1)
Recommendations for Harvesting Water for a Landscape around a Home	56	(1)
Sampling of Strategies/Techniques	56	(19)
Real Life Example: The Running Rain Society	75	(4)
Integrated Design	79	(32)
The Path of the Sun	79	(2)
The Seven Integrated Design Patterns	81	(19)
Integrating the Design Elements of Your Site to Create a Regenerative Landscape	100	(1)
Tying It All Together: Creating An Integrated Design	100	(2)
Real Life Example: An Integrated Urban Rainwater-Harvesting Retrofit, Tucson, AZ	102	(9)
Appendix 1. Patterns of Water Flow and Erosion with Their Potential Water-Harvesting Response	111	(8)
Appendix 2. Water Harvesting Traditions in the Desert Southwest by Joel Glanzberg	119	(5)
Appendix 3. Water-Harvesting Calculations	124	(12)
Appendix 4. Example Plant Lists and Water Requirement Calculations for Tucson, Arizona	136	(6)
Appendix 5. Worksheets: Your Thinking Sheets	142	(11)
Appendix 6. Resources	153	(12)
References	165	(1)
Glossary	165	(13)
Index	178