Resources
To save paper and provide the most up-to-date information and revisions, appendix 6 – Resources now appears in its entirety only at HarvestingRainwater.com on the “Books’ Resource Appendices” page. The resources provided here are a distillation of those resources covering general rainwater harvesting, water-harvesting earthworks (chapter 3), cisterns (chapter 3), greywater (chapter 3), sun angles and passive solar design (chapter 4), integrated design (chapter 4), building communities’ potential (chapter 5), climate change (appendix 9), and soils and vegetation.
General Rainwater Harvesting
Making Water Everybody’s Business: Practice and Policy of Water Harvesting, edited by Anil Agarwal, Indira Khurana, and Sunita Narain. Centre for Science and Environment, 2001.
Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall, and Potential of India’s Traditional Water Harvesting Systems, edited by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Centre for Science and Environment, 1997.
The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert, 2nd ed., by Michael Evenari, Leslie Shanan, and Naphtali Tadmor. Harvard University Press, 1982.
The Collection of Rainfall and Runoff in Rural Areas, by Arnold Pacey and Adrian Cullis. Practical Action Publishing (formerly Intermediate Technology Publications), 1986.
Information on water-harvesting demonstration sites available by searching “demonstration sites” at HarvestingRainwater.com.
Rainwater Harvesting with Earthworks (chapter 3)
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Earthworks, by Brad Lancaster. Rainsource Press, 2020.
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration: New Hope for Arid Lands, by David A. Bainbridge. Island Press, 2007.
Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels, by Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier. Quivira Coalition, 2014.
Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads, by Bill Zeedyk. Quivira Coalition, 2006.
Erosion Control Field Guide, by Craig Sponholtz and Avery C. Anderson. Quivira Coalition and Watershed Artisans, Inc., 2012.
Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape, by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden. Timber Press, 2007.
Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighborhoods, by Watershed Management Group. Free pdf available at WatershedMG.org
Rainwater Harvesting with Cisterns (chapter 3)
Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply: Design, Construction, and Implementation, edited by John Gould and Erik Nissen-Petersen. Practical Action Publishing (formerly Intermediate Technology Publications), 1999.
Rainwater Harvesting: System Planning, by Billy Kniffen, Brent Clayton, Douglas Kingman, and Fouad Jaber. AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M System, 2012.
Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use, Includes How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks, by Art Ludwig. Oasis Design, 2005.
Essential Rainwater Harvesting: A Guide to Home-Scale System Design by Rob and Michelle Avis. New Society, 2018.
Guidelines on Rainwater Catchment Systems for Hawaii, by Patricia S. H. Macomber. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2001. http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/hawaiirain/guidelines.html
Roof-Reliant Landscaping: Rainwater Harvesting with Cistern Systems in New Mexico, Nate Downey, principal author; Randall D. Schultz, editor. New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, 2009. Search online for downloadable pdf.
Greywater Resources (chapter 3)
Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems, Includes Branched Drains, 6th edition, by Art Ludwig. Oasis Design, copyright Art Ludwig, 1997-2015.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Vol. 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Earthworks, by Brad Lancaster. Rainsource Press, 2020.
OasisDesign.net, GreywaterAction.org, and HarvestingRainwater.com/greywater-harvesting
Sun Angles and Passive Solar Designs (chapter 4)
Sun, Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd ed., by G. Z. Brown and Mark DeKay. John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference, by Ken Haggard, David A. Bainbridge, and Rachel Aljilani. Earthscan Publications, 2009.
Passive Solar Architecture: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation, Daylighting, and More Using Natural Flows, by David A. Bainbridge and Ken Haggard. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011.
Sun Rhythm Form, by Ralph L. Knowles. MIT Press, 1981.
Ritual House, by Ralph L. Knowles. Island Press, 2006.
Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, by Victor Olgyay. Princeton University Press, 1963.
A Golden Thread: 2,500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology, by Ken Butti and John Perlin. Cheshire Books, 1980.
Integrated Design (chapter 4)
Design with Nature, by Ian McHarg. John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
Introduction to Permaculture, by Bill Mollison with Reny Mia Slay. Tagari, 1991.
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2009.
Regenerative Development: A Framework for Design Beyond Resilience, by Ben Haggard and Pamela Mang, John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Living Building Challenge, http://living-future.org/lbc
Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function, by Didi Pershouse, SoilCarbonCoalition.org.
Building Communities’ Potential (chapter 5)
City Repair, CityRepair.org
City of Portland, Oregon’s Green Street Program, http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/45386
WalkScore.org and LivingStreetsAlliance.org
Desert Harvesters, DesertHarvesters.org
The Big Orange Splot, by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. Scholastic, 1977.
Climate Change (appendix 9)
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore. Rodale 2006.
Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer), by Stan Cox. The New Press, 2010.
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, by William deBuys. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken. Penguin Books, 2017.
Climate: A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein, North Atlantic Books, 2018.
Soils and Vegetation (foundation of the water-harvesting earthworks’ living systems)
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. Timber Press, 2010.
The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture, by Sir Albert Howard, with a new introduction by Wendell Berry. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Food from Dryland Gardens, by David Cleveland and Daniela Soleri. Center for People, Food, and Environment, 1991. CD-ROM, 2002.
Let it Rot!: The Gardener’s Guide to Composting, by Stu Campbell. Storey Publishing, 1998.
Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living, by Desert Harvesters, Rainsource Presss, 2018.
Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, by Joseph C. Jenkins. Joseph Jenkins Inc., 2005. HumanureHandbook.com
“Green Burials,” by Brad Lancaster. Search “green burials” at HarvestingRainwater.com.
There’s a Hair in My Dirt! by Gary Larson. Harper Perennial, 1999.