Rainwater harvesting for drylands and beyond. Volume 2 Water-harvesting earthworks
Record details
- ISBN: 9780977246441
- ISBN: 0977246442
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Physical Description:
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xx, 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm - Edition: 2nd edition.
- Publisher: Tucson, Arizona : Rainsource Press, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Revised & expanded in color"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-408) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: earthworks defined, their advantages, and a story of success -- Assessing your site, choosing your earthworks, and tips on implementation to achieve greater success -- Infiltration basins: the first of many rain garden strategies -- Berm 'n basins -- Terraces -- Infiltration trenches -- Imprinting -- Mulching -- Reducing hardscape, harvesting its runoff, and creating permeable paving -- Diversion swales -- In-channel strategies -- Vegetation -- Harvesting greywater and other on-site "wastes" turned resources -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: water levels, a-frame levels, and laser levels -- Appendix 2: water-harvesting earthworks calculations -- Appendix 3: sizing and implementing a kitchen resource drain (KRD) in Arizona, code clarification, and recommended changes to the code -- Appendix 4: resources. |
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Subject: | Water harvesting Hydraulic engineering Hydraulic engineering Water harvesting Durabilité de l'environnement Écologie agricole hydraulic engineering |
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