Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition - Water-Harvesting Earthworks

2020 independent Press Award Winner--Green Book Category

Rainwater Harvesting for? Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2? is a how-to guide enabling you to -plant the rain- by creating water-harvesting -earthworks-?or -rain gardens.- Earthworks? are simple, inexpensive strategies and landforms that passively harvest multiple sources of free on-site water including rainfall, stormwater runoff, air conditioning condensate, and greywater within -living tanks- of soil and vegetation. The plants then pump the water back out? in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, timber and forage, while controlling erosion, reducing down-stream flooding, dropping utility costs, increasing soil fertility, and improving water and air quality.

This revised and expanded full-color second edition builds on the information in Volume 1 by showing you how to turn your yard, school, business, park, and neighborhood into lively, regenerative produce