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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
311 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book provides insight into water and creates a more profound understanding of the current water predicament. It focuses on the health of our planet surrounding water and uses technologically advanced sytems to reveal the damage and destruction brought on by humans. Focus is put on our attempts to control water and our reckless actions that threaten water availability."--
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
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State’s single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California’s water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources—a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. But this...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Bancroft is a dry gardening pioneer. Her lifelong love of plants led to the creation of one of the most acclaimed public gardens, The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. The Bold Dry Garden offers unparalleled access to the garden and the extraordinary woman responsible for it. In its stunningly photographed pages, you?ll discover the history of the garden and the design principles and plant palette that make it unique. Packed...
Publisher
City of Santa Barbara
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Episodes 1-9 of the local TV show that shows you how to garden in environmentally-friendly, sustainable ways. Covers such topics as incorporating the best plants into your garden, irrigation systems, soils, pests, etc.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This DIY guide shows how to collect, store, purify, and drill for water with 10 inexpensive projects, and provides practical conservation information. "Do-It-Yourself Sustainable Water Projects" provides everything you need to know to create your own water projects--from collecting rainwater and air conditioner condensate to properly drilling and constructing pump systems. A list of manufacturers and other resources is included to help locate all...
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.
Publisher
Stetson Engineers Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
i-vii, 65 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color, some folded) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A summary of findings for the previous water year (2021-2022), current water year (2022-2023), and ensuing water year (2023-2024)-Final"--Cover.
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
286 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Learn from the West's best garden designers how to combine easy-care shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, succulents, and groundcovers with spectacular results. Plus, the latest water-wise design strategies, from lawn replacements to low-water patio plantings.
Publisher
Santa Barbara County Water Agency
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This video introduces viewers to the diverse water supplies present in Santa Barbara County through interviews, images, and narration. Topics include history, climate, local groundwater basins, local reservoirs, cloud seeding, state water project, and water conservation. Santa Barbara County has a diverse water portfolio with the majority of water being drawn from local groundwater basins and reservoirs. While each water provider is working with...
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...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (1:78:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis... begging the question: Can anyone really own water?"--Container.
Publisher
City of Santa Barbara
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Episodes 10-13 of the local TV show that shows you how to garden in environmentally-friendly, sustainable ways. Covers such topics as incorporating low-water native plants into your garden, low-maintenance lawns, etc.
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