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• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. Volume 1, Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape

  Lancaster, Brad,

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  Guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement life-enhancing water-, sun-, wind-, and shade-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. This book enables you to assess your on-site resources, gives you a diverse array of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waterwise Gardening

  Water, Plants and Climate : a Practical Guide

  Cooke, Ian, 1949-

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  Full of advice including dealing with global warming, being green, looking at ways of storing and recycling water, using mulches and choosing drought-tolerant plants, this book will be of interest to all gardeners.

• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond. Volume 2, Water-harvesting Earthworks

  Lancaster, Brad,

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  Shows you how to turn your yard, school, business, park, and neighborhood into lively, regenerative producers of resources. Conditions at home will improve as you simultaneously enrich the ecosystem and inspire the surrounding community. Learn to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harvesting Rainwater for Your Home

  Design, Install, and Maintain a Self-sufficient Water Collection and Storage System in 5 Simple Steps

  Stein, Daniel I.,

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  Whether your goal is saving the planet, cutting down your expenses, or preparing for an emergency, harvesting rainwater is the perfect way to prepare for the future.

• The West Without Water

  What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow

  Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-

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  Documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources.

• The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook

  How to Design and Build Swales, Dams, Ponds, and Other Water Harvesting Systems

  Barnes, Douglas,

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  This practical handbook is the essential resource for permaculture designers, teachers and students, landowners, farmers, homesteaders, landscape architects, and others involved in maximizing the water harvesting potential of any landscape at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Worth of Water

  Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge

  White, Gary (Founder of Water.org),

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  Through first-hand accounts of setbacks and triumphs in projects spanning across the world, this illuminates the challenges of building and scaling market-based financial solutions to the global water crisis, and ultimately, empower communities and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Drop

  Solving the World's Water Crisis

  Smedley, Tim (Journalist),

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  A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water.

• The Three Ages of Water

  Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

  Gleick, Peter, 1956-

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  Spread over a ten-thousand-year human history, it begins with the fundamental evolutionary role water had in shaping early civilizations and empires, crests to the scientific and social revolutions that created modern society, and spills into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Water Storage

  Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers and Ponds

  Ludwig, Art

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  For domestic supply, fire and emergency use. Includes how to make ferrocement water tanks.

• Water-smart Gardening

  Save Water, Save Money, and Grow the Garden You Want

  Maranhao, Diana,

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  Learn about water conservation, drought-tolerant plants, and xeriscaping.

• The Water-saving Garden

  How to Grow a Gorgeous Garden With a Lot Less Water

  Penick, Pam,

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  A guide to growing beautiful gardens in drought-prone areas utilizing minimal water for maximum results.

• The Drought-resilient Farm

  Strickler, Dale,

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  Ranging from simple, short-term projects such as installing rain-collection ollas to long-term land-management planning strategies, Strickler's methods show how to get more water into the soil, keep it in the soil, and help plants and livestock…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Replenish

  the Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity

  Postel, Sandra,

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  Takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms.

• The Oasis This Time

  Living and Dying With Water in the West

  Lawton, Rebecca,

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  Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases.

• Low-water Landscaping

  Chace, Teri Dunn,

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  This book guides you through different styles of landscaping, introduces you to uniquely drought-tolerant plants, and provides solutions for even the trickiest terrains. You can break the cycle of constant watering, without sacrificing the relaxing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water-wise Home

  How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape

  Allen, Laura, 1976-

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  Provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficiently while fulfilling all of your home and garden needs. Learn how to create a water-wise landscape, reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and even set up a waterless composting toilet.

• Water Always Wins

  Thriving in An Age of Drought and Deluge

  Gies, Erica,

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  Introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change.

• The Regenerative Garden

  80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-sustaining Garden Ecosystem

  Rose, Stephanie (Gardener),

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  Discover how to work with nature, instead of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to create a garden that is not just more beautiful and productive, but also more resilient.