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This website—and its sister books, resources, and projects—strive to enable you to better collaborate with, and contribute to, many living systems that spark and regenerate life for all. They help you to see, and act, in new conscious ways, so “wastes” become resources, and “problems” become potential. It’s about utilizing what is already freely at hand to turn scarcity into abundance.
For example, in my desert city of Tucson, Arizona (where we get an average of 11 inches [280 mm] of annual rainfall), more water falls as rain on our city in an average year than the entire population of the city (over half a million residents) consumes of municipal water (the bulk of which is imported/pumped in at great cost from the Colorado River over 300 miles away) in a year. So, we’d typically have more free local water than we need if we’d consciously harvest it, rather than wastefully drain it away. And we don’t need any fancy equipment or large infrastructure to do so.
You start where you are—where you live, work, study, grow, and/or play; in a way that lifts you, as it also lifts others, our larger communities, and the ecosystems we’re all nested within; so that our combined health and potential—our true wealth—improves and evolves.
Water Harvesting
Water harvesting is the practice of planting/infiltrating or tanking, utilizing, and cycling of free on-site waters (rain, stormwater runoff (such as street runoff), greywater, dark greywater, condensate, snow, & fog), in a way that maintains or improves their quality, maximizes their availability and accessibility over time (even in droughts), reduces on-site and downstream flooding in wet times, and helps grow more life and fertility—so that water, soil, and living conditions improve on both the site where we live; and throughout the larger community and our shared watershed
Water harvesting IS the stewardship path to abundance.
This site passively hydrates itself by harvesting, infiltrating, and bioremediating rainwater, runoff, and greywater on site, which reduces downslope flooding and overall water consumption, while improving water quality.
The need to pump in water is greatly reduced or eliminated.
Leaf drop and other organic matter is also harvested and cycled back into the soil and plants, further increasing fertility and water-holding capacity.
This leads to an enhancement of resources and a bun dance of celebration due to the resulting abundance.
Reproduced with permission from Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition. Illustration by Joe Marshall.
Water harvesting is NOT the rapid draining of water, soil, nutrients, and potential off site. Nor is it the importation of pumped-in or trucked-in waters extracted from elsewhere and others
Read more:
https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
https://www.harvestingrainwater.com/water-harvesting/