Harvest Rainwater and Reap the Benefits in Drylands and Beyond

bj: Not at all what it was advertised to be. Basically only applies to desert living where there are no restrictive zoning codes for water storage, digging cisterns, having standing water storage tanks,etc. Those things don't work in urban settings.
It's also frustrating to have to pay to return this book.

United States on Jan 24, 2023

High Expectations: Permaculture legend Brad Lancaster
A rainwater harvesting bible.

United States on Dec 10, 2022

Paolo Piccinelli: It's a golden mine of tricks, practical solutions and methods for rainwater harvesting and recycling.
In a world where rain is more and more scarce and erratic, this book is a big added value for every homestead.
Five stars from me!

Italy on Oct 03, 2022

Ronnie: I first heard of Brad through his work on YouTube and wanted to know more. This book covers a lot of basics on rainwater, shade, and solar harvesting.

Brad gives us formulas for figuring out how much rain we can collect from our roof, as well as how much rain falls on our property.

He shows how to design catchments to move the water across the land using materials and methods that will prevent erosion.

I am not mentioning everything he covers, because I am not here to write a book.

I pray the western half of the US will start covering this doctrine in schools. We need more people using these common sense methods to break away from dependency on vanishing commercialized resources.

United States on Sep 24, 2022

D.H.: Water is Life. Inspires me to care for water and create a food garden and life that is hopefully regenerative. Looking forward to using practical instructions to increase groundwater reserves and support my family. Highly recommend.

United States on Sep 04, 2022

Peter J. Bion: Well written book on the subject but unfortunately it was not what I was looking for. I will have to wait for volume 3 which deals with roof runoff and garden watering using rainwater.

Canada on Sep 14, 2021

Nathalie: Des idées et info super intéressant pour gérer nos besoins d'eau!

France on Jun 16, 2021

goodpr: Adding to my reference library :)
Thank You!!!

Canada on Apr 27, 2021

Dianna C: The book is wonderful! There is a lot of great and inspiring information in there. I love the story format combined with the technical information. Color pictures are helpful too, giving me a good idea of how things should/could be done for my own land and home. This book along with the Graywater book I ordered as the set have already been borrowed by a co-worker giving inspiration to him as well. If anyone reads this, perhaps also look up this author's TED Tucson talk. It is funny along with the serious, but also completely inspiring to move forward and put the ideas in this book into practice. He also has lots of other helpful videos.

One thing I did that could be helpful to others when following the guidelines in this book is that I looked up my property in Google Maps. I made it the largest I could get it, then put all of it together using paint with screen shots. Once printed, (several pages), I taped the pages together and can now mark out how and where to implement this from a (mostly) real time image of my property. I can't wait to get started!

United States on Feb 17, 2020

Bryan Johnson: Good book. The info is a little redundant at times, but well worth the read.

Canada on Oct 06, 2019