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Evolutions Within the Dunbar/Spring Public Commons
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com A bare beginning When I moved to the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in 1994, much of it was not a pleasant place to walk. Most of the public...
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DIY Steam Harvesting in Rural Kenya
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Joseph Saitabao saw perennial water where no one else did. He saw it around Mount Suswa, Kenya, where no one lived during the dry season due to the...
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Harvesting Rock Water and More in Kenya
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Earlier this year, while visiting the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya, I saw some of the worst erosion I’ve yet witnessed, while also experiencing a variety...
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Bandsar Agriculture: Indigenous Runoff-Harvesting & Climate-Change Resilience...
This blog entry was graciously provided by J. Tabatabaee Yazdi, who hosted me when I presented at the Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association conference in 2014. You can see my writings and...
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Historic Rainwater-Harvesting Systems at the Shrine of Santa Rita in Vail,...
by Brad Lancaster © 2017 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Southern Arizona has a rich water-harvesting history that is too often forgotten or lost. Though sometimes gems are dusted off, unearthed,...
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Finally, an Easy-to-Permit Three-Way Valve for Greywater-Harvesting Systems
by Brad Lancaster © 2018 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Greywater harvesting—the practice of directing the drain water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and clothes washers to your landscape...
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Harvesting Rainwater for Hikers, Wildlife, Livestock, Oases, and More
By Brad Lancaster © 2019 HarvestingRainwater.com I love water and seek it out when I hike—especially tinajas, natural water pools in the desert. Such ephemeral pools can be created with simple...
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Giveaway of Brad’s Newly Released Book, “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands...
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the just-released, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 beginning September 25, 2019. This giveaway is only for people with mailing addresses in the...
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Giveaway of Brad’s Newly Released Book, “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands...
I’m conducting the giveaway of signed copies of the full-color, 2nd edition of Volume 2 September 27 to October 10, 2019. .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif;...
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Potential, Challenges, and Resources for Condensate Harvesting
by Brad Lancaster (C) 2019, www.HarvestingRainwater.com Top of the Austin City Hall air-conditioner-condensate waterfall Bottom of the Austin City Hall air-conditioner-condensate waterfall Condensate...
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Turning Lifeless “Wastes” Into Verdant Water-Harvesting “Urbanite” Terraces...
By Brad Lancaster © 2019 HarvestingRainwater.com I love turning “wastes” into resources, thus I love the creative reuse of “urbanite” — the abundant “rock” of broken up chunks of discarded concrete...
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition now...
I just released the new, full-color, 3rd edition of Volume 1 in E-BOOK format. This makes the book far more affordable for those outside the U.S., since there are no insanely costly international...
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New Full-Color Editions of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Win...
The new full-color, revised editions of Brad Lancaster’s books Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volumes 1 and 2 are Independent Press Award winners. In addition, Volume 1 is a...
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Revised and Expanded List of Plants for Chickens in the Sonoran Desert
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Why buy all food or materials for shade structures for you chickens when you can grow many of these resources and more? Plants native to your area and your...
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Simple & Effective Gravity-fed Greywater Harvesting Systems Legalized in Utah
—and How You Can Help Make Such Change Where You Are By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com Utah has recently revised its rules for greywater harvesting systems to allow for residential...
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Cool Yourself, Your Neighborhood, and the Planet with the Water-Harvesting...
by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com The following is reproduced from “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.” Life supported by water-harvesting earthworks...
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Tweaking Trails, Irrigation Line Protection, & Erosion-Control to Harvest...
By Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com In 2018 and 2019 I had the pleasure to work with Rob Kater and crew of Native Resource International to incorporate stealth water- and soil-harvesting...
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Wear Your Passion: water-harvesting and Plant the Rain wearables
Fellow water harvesters and planters of the rain, show your colors! Rainwater Harvesting t-shirts—all unisex sizes Plant the Rain caps—one size fits most And now… Rainwater Harvesting shirts—kid-size...
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