Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands - Congratulations Brad Lancaster!
15 years go I met Brad Lancaster in a Chinese Martial Arts class here in Tucson, AZ. Brad was passionately deveoted to building awareness and support for Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands. His tireless efforts have proved very successful.
http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/
Tucson is recognized as a world leader in sustainable technology thanks, in part, to his efforts.
Meaningful change is difficult and hard to maintain.
Congratulations Brad on your continued success!
Best regards,
Kelley G.
Tucson First In The Nation
Rethinking runoff as usable water supply
azcentral.com
Rethinking runoff as usable water supply, In the search for new water sources, rainwater advocates say, the most obvious place to look is up. Water that falls from the sky, they say, should be treated like the gift that it is...
Drops In A Bucket
August 23rd
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 4 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog posts on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Northern Jordan, April 2009
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July 24th
by Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, © 2010
Number 3 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog entries on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in the Middle East
Al Absaa, Saudi Arabia, Apr...
July 17th
or If You Pray for Rain – Harvest It
By Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, ©2010
Number 2 in a series of Drops in a Bucket blog entries on Brad Lancaster’s and David Eisenberg’s U.S. State Department-sponsored adventures and gleanings in t...
July 7th
or If You and Your Drink Sweat, Then Harvest Condensate
By Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com, ©2010
I am finally getting to the sharing of my travel gleanings. This is the first of a series to follow – so keep checking back. This piece is from m...
June 29th
Many thanks to Craig Mackintosh for the permission to repost a portion of his blog entry, enhanced with his own beautiful photographs, describing some of his Middle-Eastern travel experiences and the West Bank’s first PDC, which Murad Alkhuffash, Da...
May 10th
By Brad Lancaster
© 2010 www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Watergy is a term coined to describe the interconnection of water and energy. Every time we consume power we consume water. This is because water is used in the generation of our power – in Arizona th...
April 27th
By Julia Fonseca
Whew, digging swales and basins is hard work! Gutters and tanks are expensive. And as the skimpy summer rains of 2009 demonstrated, how do you harvest rain when the rain refuses to fall?
Fortunately, there is a way to harvest water, eve...
April 6th
By Brad Lancaster
© 2010 www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Rainwater is known as “sweet water” throughout much of the world due to its pure “sweet” flavor when compared to brackish, alkaline, chemically-treated, or polluted ground and surface waters. Now it is ...
March 12th
By Brad Lancaster
© 2010 Drops in a Bucket Blog, www.HarvestingRainwater.com
When I was little I was terrified of death. I often cried myself to sleep as I thought of the end of life. It seemed so bleak, pointless, and severe.
Mom tried to comfort me with...
July 27th
© 2009 Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Many garden hoses leach lead and other chemicals into the water as it sits in the hose. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brass fittings are often the culprits.
Yuck - the water tastes like lead!
To reduce su...