for Drylands and Beyond

Volume 1 - Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape
Volume 2 Coming Soon!

www.HarvestingRainwater.com

by Brad Lancaster, Foreward by Gary Paul Nabhan

Taken from Back Cover:
"Clearly written with more than 150 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!"

Contents:

• List of Illustrations
• List of Boxed Information
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - The Man Who Farms Water and the Rainwater-Harvesting Guidelines
• Chapter 2 - Assessing Your Site's Water Resources
• Chapter 3 - Overview: Harvesting Water with Earthworks, Tanks, or Both
• Chapter 4 - Integrated Design
• Appendix 1 - Patterns of Water Flow and Erosion with Their Potential Water-Harvesting Response
• Appendix 2 - Water Harvesting Traditions in the Desert Southwest by Joel Glanzberg
• Appendix 3 - Water-Harvesting Calculations
• Appendix 4 - Example Plant Lists and Water Requirement, Calculations for Tuscon, Arizona
• Appendix 5 - Worksheets: Your Thinking Sheets
• Appendix 6 - Resources
• References
• Glossary
• Index