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Graywater: The Next Wave is a complete guide to conserving laundry and bath water-"graywater"-for use in landscape watering. For the novice it offers complete details on the advantages, components and methods for conserving one of our most valuable resources. Those already familiar with the benefits of reclaiming graywater will find this up-to-date guide has the latest information for installing and maintaining several different types of graywater systems. A step-by-step guide and photographs teach you how to install a near-surface drainfield at a fraction of the cost of the methods employed in conventional graywater systems. Newly researched methods of graywater disinfectant are also detailed, which have less impact on plants and the environment.

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The New Create an Oasis With Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systms - Includes Branched Drains (Paperback). This is an excellent, real-world book on how to water your yard and plants by recycling your own used water. Using these techniques homeowners can drastically reduce their outdoor water consumption. This book is all you need to set up a good, working grey water system for no more money than a typical wasteful system costs.

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Installation of Greywater Systems in New Construction & Remodeling; A Supplement to the Book "Create an Oasis With Greywater" (Paperback). "Extremely helpful for interpreting the arcane language of the plumbing code for the uninitiated. Without it, many pitfalls await the unwary."

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This is a very helpful book for the gardener who wants to actually install a drip irrigation system without hiring a pro. The author goes into pecifics about how to test your soil to understand how water moves through it and you can calculate how much water you'll need to apply. The author discusses transpiration rates for various types of plants, so you can figure out how much water your plants actually use. Also gives a primer in the various components of a drip system. The author teaches plumbing, horticulture, and geology just enough to help a novice design and install a drip system.

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The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!

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The obsession with water has shaped California to a remarkable extent, literally as well as politically and culturally. Hundley tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers. The desire to use, profit from, manipulate, and control water drives the people and events in this fascinating narrative until, by the end of the twentieth century, a large, colorful cast of characters and communities has wheeled and dealed, built, diverted, and connived its way to an entirely different statewide waterscape. The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization of farmland and open spaces, persisting despoliation of water supplies, and demands for equity in water allocation for an exploding population. People the world over confront these problems, and Hundley examines them with clarity and eloquence in the unruly laboratory of California.

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This book covers tanks, cisterns, aquifers, and ponds. It also covers water storage for fire and emergency use. A great resource for the novice as well as the seasoned individual.

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