Laura Allen

"Affair of the Heart is the story of Katherine (Kate) Marsdon Hunt, the spoiled daughter of Jamison Marsdon, a self-made industrial magnate who is widowed when Kate is fifteen. After a short-lived first marriage, the eligible Kate is single for years, until Jamison hand-picks Jed Hunt to run his company and to be his son-in-law."--

Save the earth's most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficiently while fulfilling all of your home and garden needs. Learn how to create a water-wise landscape, reuse gray water, harvest rainwater, and even set up a waterless composting toilet. Offering proven techniques in clear and accessible language, The Water-Wise Home makes it easy to help the environment...

Keep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including laundry-to-landscape and branched drain gravity-fed systems. After identifying greywater sources in your home and estimating flow rate, you'll learn to pinpoint...