Rainwater Harvesting: (RWH) System Planning
by Texas AgriLIFE Extension
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This manual is intended to assist contractors, consultants, individual land owners and others in planning and installing rainwater harvesting systems (RWH). The topics covered address the popular and usual distribution of water for landscapes, pets, wildlife, livestock, and private non-potable and potable in-home rainwater systems.
Forgotten Rain
by Heather Kinkade
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"This is a great resource, not only for the background information on systems, but it also gives a wide variety of examples to look at. Anyone designing and installing systems needs to understand the principles laid out in this book."
-Billy Kniffen, ARCSA
Design for Water
by Heather Kinkade
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This is an accessible and clearly written guide to alternate water collection, with a focus on rainwater harvesting in the urban environment. This book covers rainwater harvesting, stormwater catchment and alternate water reuse. In an era of dwindling resources, water is poised to become the new oil as the entire world now faces the reality of a decreasing supply of clean water. To avert a devastating shortage, we must not only look at alternate water sources for existing structures, we must also plan our new developments differently.
Harvest the Rain
by Nate Downey
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One in five people worldwide suffer from water shortage, but there is enough precipitation in various forms to provide ample water for everybody. Nate shows us how to collect, store, distribute, and reuse a small percentage of that which falls from the sky. This simple procedure has such benefits such as increasing property’s value, lowering utility bills, or simply creating a comfortable oasis. Harvest the Rain presents a wealth of opportunities for enriching your life.
Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1
by Brad Lancaster
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Turn water scarcity into water abundance! This book is the first volume of guides on how to design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. It enables you to access your on-site resources (like rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun and plants), gives you a diverse array of strategies, and empowers you with principles to create an integrated, multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan specific to your site and needs.
Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2
by Brad Lancaster
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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.
Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged
by Suzy Banks and Richard Heinichien
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Richard wrote this book as a beginners guide to rainwater collection systems. This handbook is cute, funny and smart - smart enough to teach almost anyone how to install a personal rainwater collection system.
Guidelines on Rainwater Catchment for Hawai'i
by Patricia S.H. Macomber. College of Tropical Ag. and Human Resources, U of H at Manoa
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Alternative Water Sources and Wastewater Management
by Bob Boulware
The definitive guide to alternative water sources and wastewater solutions. This timely volume discusses alternative water sources and waste disposal methods that are appropriate when
traditional means and methods do not exist or are inadequate.This books presents a variety of innovative concepts that are being researched, developed, and implemented worldwide. Featuring detailed illustrations, an eight-page color insert, current examples, statistics, and calculations, this book provides the vital information needed to address the rapidly increasing global demand for clean water.
price $45 + 8.00 shipping = total $ 53.00
2012 Green Plumbing and Mechanical Code Supplement, IAPMO.
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