Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands And Beyond
by Brad Lancaster · first published 2012
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Anyone interested in reading more, I highly recommend reading Brad Lancaster’s work on Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. He has a great introductory TED Talk too. I just finished Vol 1 of his book and started Vol 2 today. I can’t recommend his stuff enough.
on “Permaculture Water Systems of the Seven Seeds Farm [video]” ↗I highly recommend anyone interested in solutions to read “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond” by Brad Lancaster. Link below. Also, he has a great video on YouTube with some of the concepts at a high level (from a TEDx) - don’t let his enthusiasm at the beginning detract from the seriousness of…
on “The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs” ↗…at the moment. Geoff Lawton has done a ton of projects like this, but maybe not at the landscape wide scales like the projects above. Probably the best book on the basic principles of how to do it - Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster. Also the book Water For Every Farm by P.A. Yeomans is pretty good as well, but not as accessible of a read. TLDR - To keep desert monsoons from flooding areas downstream, dig a landscape…
on “Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?” ↗For more general design patterns for water management, see Brad Landcaster's book series, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond". In the pictures in the article, the roads form berms, and the fields are basins. It doesn't just have to be roads -- walkways threading through a smaller scale can act as berms as well. The two volume…
on “'Green Roads' Are Plowing Ahead, Buffering Drought and Floods” ↗Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance | Brad Lancaster | TEDxTucson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xDZlpInik Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond - https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
on “Permaculture Water Systems of the Seven Seeds Farm [video]” ↗