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Language
English
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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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Learn rainwater harvesting techniques. In California and other regions affected by drought, agriculture is suffering from a lack of water and farms are being abandoned at an alarming rate. But some people have developed solutions to capture the rains that DO fall. In this state and in many other dry regions around the world, land restoration helps water penetrate healthy soils and in turn increase crop yields. Even in dry areas, water which typically...
Author
Publisher
Oasis Design
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. and expanded 5th ed.
Physical Desc
v, 144 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers instructions for creating and using a greywater system, and describes how these systems will relieve strain on the septic system while providing irrigation for residential use.
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Oasis Design
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"An instructional video on how to design and build Laundry to Landscape Greywater Systems. These are the simplest, most economical greywater systems to install yourself as an owner or renter...Learn how to save freshwater with laundry washwater; relieve strain on your septic tank; purify wastewater better without energy or chemicals. Laundry to Landscape is an open-source, collaborative... design..."---Description from http://oasisdesign.net
Author
Publisher
Oasis Design
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Revised & expanded 6th edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 154 pages : illustrations, charts, plans ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Create an Oasis describes how to choose, build, and use a simple greywater system (some can be completed in an afternoon). Going deeper, it explains how to integrate efficient fixtures, user habits, plant selection and location, rainwater, greywater, and freshwater irrigation for your soil and site conditions." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2000, a transformative climate-driven "megadrought" swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river's two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth--drinking...
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