Rainwater harvesting for drylands and beyond: Volume 1,Guiding principles to welcome rain into your life and landscape

Introduction

My rainwater-harvesting evolution

The value of rainwater

Rainwater harvesting through land and time

The shift away from rainwater

Scarcity or abundance

My community's path

Our path to abundance

1. The man who farms water and the rainwater-harvesting guidelines

The eight rainwater-harvesting principles

Water-harvesting ethics

2013 update on Mr. Zephaniah Phiri

2. Assessing your site's water resources and more

The hydrologic cycle : our Earth's circulatory system

Watersheds and subwatersheds

Determining your piece of the hydrologic cycle

Calculate your site's rainfall volume

Estimate your site's water needs

Estimate your secondary on-site water source : greywater

Estimate additional on-site "waste"

Waters that can be used as "resource" waters

A one-page place assessment and how to use it

Real life example : living within a dryland home's rainwater budget

3. Overview : harvesting water with earthworks, tanks, or both

How do you plant to use your harvested water?

Recommendations for harvesting water for a landscape around a home

Sampling of strategies/techniques

Overview of water-harvesting earthworks

Overview of cistern systems

Real life example : The Running Rain Society

4. Integrated design

The path of the sun

Seven integrated design patterns

Orienting buildings and landscapes to the sun

Designing roof overhangs and awnings to optimize winter sun and summer shade

Solar arcs

Sun & shade traps

Maintaining winter sun access

Raised paths, sunken basins

Reduce paving and make it permeable

Integrating the elements and patterns of your site to create regenerative investments

Creating an integrated design

5. A integrated urban home and neighborhood retrofit

Our beginning : realizing the water-harvesting principles

Our evolution : taking it further with the integrated design patterns

Our neighborhood : collaborating for leveraged potential in the wider community

Appendix 1. Patterns of water and sediment flow with their potential water-harvesting response

Appendix 2. Water-harvesting traditions in the Desert Southwest / Joel Glanzberg

Appendix 3. Water-harvesting calculations

Appendix 4. Example plant lists and water requirement calculations for Tucson, Arizona plus a Sonoran Desert foods harvest calendar

Appendix 5. Worksheets : your thinking sheets

Appendix 6. Resources

Appendix 7. Sun angles and path

Appendix 8. Wind harvesting; basic airflow relationships, site selection, wind pumping and wind power, natural ventilation, windbreaks, and snow- and biomass-drift harvesting

Appendix 9. Water-energy-carbon nexus.

The man who farms water and the rainwater-harvesting guidelines

Assessing your site's water resources and more

Overview: harvesting water with earthworks, tanks, or both

Integrated design

An integrated urban home and neighborhood retrofit

Appendix 1: patterns of water and sediment flow with their potential water-harvesting response

Appendix 2: water-harvesting traditions in the desert southwest / by Joel Glanzberg

Appendix 3: water-harvesting calculations

Appendix 4: multi-use plant lists, plant water demand estimators, a Sonoran desert foods harvest calendar

Appendix 5: worksheets: your thinking sheets

Appendix 6: resources

Appendix 7: sun angles and path

Appendix 8: wind harvesting: basic airflow relationships, site selection, wind pumping and wind power, natural ventilation, windbreaks, and snow- and biomass-drift harvesting

Appendix 9: water-energy-carbon nexus.