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description: Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Volume 2 2nd Edition is a how-to guide enabling you to plant the rain by creating water-harvesting earthworks or rain gardens. Earthworks are simple inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall stormwater runoff air conditioning condensate and greywater within living tanks of soil and vegetation. The plants then pump the water back out in the form of beauty food shelter wildlife habitat timber and forage while controlling erosion reducing down-stream flooding dropping utility costs increasing soil fertility enhancing the soil carbon sponge and improving water and air quality.This dramatically revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in Volume 1 by showing you how to turn your yard school business park ranch and neighborhood into lively regenerative producers of resources. Conditions at home will improve as you simultaneously enrich the ecosystem and inspire the surrounding community.Learn to select place size construct and plant your chosen earthworks. All is made easier and more effective by the illustrations of natural patterns of water and sediment flow with which you can collaborate or mimic. Detailed step-by-step instructions with over 550 images show you how to do it and plentiful stories of success motivate you so you will do it!
language: English
title: Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks
publisher: None