Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

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2020 Independent Press Award Winner–Home & Garden Category

Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement life-enhancing water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-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 plan specific to your site and needs.
Clearly written with more than 290 illustrations, this full-color edition 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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rainsource Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 22, 2019
Edition ‏ : ‎ 3rd
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977246450
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977246458
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.7 x 10.8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #47,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Sustainability & Green Design #7 in Water Quality & Treatment #10 in Water Supply & Land Use (Books)
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Customers find this rainwater harvesting book excellent, with one describing it as the “bible of harvesting rainwater.” They appreciate its informative content, with one customer highlighting its clear discussion of principles. The book receives positive feedback for its practical instructions, and one customer particularly likes the hand-drawn illustrations and schematics.