Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands
By Brad Lancaster



This award-winning book is now available for check-out at our Petrolia office! Please call or stop by our Resource Center to check it out.

Also visit www.harvestingrainwater.com to visit the author's website which contains a wealth of information on rainwater collection, greywater systems, and water conservation.

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Volume I: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

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 2: Water Harvesting Earthworks

Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and passive heating and cooling strategies, while controlling erosion, increasing soil fertility, reducing downstream flooding, and improving water and air quality. Building on the information presented in Volume 1, this book shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site.