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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond

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determine how much rain, in English or Nature

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surface by multiplying the volume of rain that NEW
workshops, and other appearances. falls on that surface by its “runoff coefficient”
Thanks! ARTiculations:
— the average percentage of rainwater that "Walk the
runs off that type of surface. For example, a Watershed"
rooftop with a runoff coefficient of 0.95 Tours,
estimates that 95% of the rain falling on that February 26
roof will run off. The runoff coefficient for and March 11,
any given surface depends on what the 2012 – Tucson
surface is composed of. Rainfall intensity, soil AZ (1:00 pm)
type, and vegetation density also affect the 12 March:
coefficient. Calculating Runoff Volumes, also Watershed
from Volume 1, lists the runoff coefficients Management
for several types of catchment surfaces and
Group: Early &
gives examples of how to use this number
Regular
when calculating runoff volumes in metric or
Registration
English units.
Deadlines for
Spring 2012
Sizing Water Tanks Water-
Harvesting
What Size Water Tank (return to top) Certification
Brad Lancaster - Rainwater Harvesting for Dry lands and Bey ond
on Facebook Do I Need – Student Version Courses –
This exercise was developed by Kendall Phoenix/Tucson
Twitter Dunnigan at (OAEC) Occidental Arts and AZ (all day)
Ecology Center to help students design an
... integrated approach to water harvesting. Also see the full list of
upcoming events.
Follow Brad on Twitter What Size Water Tank Do I Need –
Teacher Version
Thought Seeds This exercise was developed by Kendall
Dunnigan at (OAEC) Occidental Arts and
“Begin harvesting water where it is Ecology Center to help students design an
simple, easy, and inexpensive - in integrated approach to water harvesting.
your landscape.
Permaculture Ethics and
Follow a more sustainable hierarchy
of water management where:
Design Principles
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This version of the Permaculture Ethics and

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• Rainwater and localized runoff, our Design Principles was
on-site water resources, are the compiled by the Permaculture Drylands
primary water source for our Institute and the Sonoran Permaculture
landscapes and gardens. Guild.

• Greywater is the secondary water Designer s Site

source for our landscapes. Greywater
is household "wastewater" that drains Assessment Checklist
from sinks, clothes washers, showers,
bathtubs, reverse-osmosis water A four-page annotated (return to top)
filters, and the condensate from air checklist, the Designer s Site Assessment
Checklist guides you through the basics of a
conditioners.
site assessment, from General Information,
Site Observation, Site Information, to the
• Municipal water or groundwater
Human Factor, describing each section and
from private wells is strictly a
supplementary source for landscapes its components in relatively detailed
and only in times of need such as a paragraphs.
drought. This is water pumped onto,
or pumped up to, our site.” Brad s PowerPoint
-- Brad Lancaster, "Rainwater
Presentations
Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" Currently the following (return to top)
presentations are available for free download
30% to 50% of the drinking water
(from Brad s iDisk, as the files are too large
consumed by the average American
to make available here):
or Australian household is used to
irrigate landscapes. General Water-Harvesting
Presentation: “Turning Drains Into
Sponges & Water Scarcity Into Water
Abundance” — PDF & PPT versions
Greywater-Harvesting Presentation:
“Turning Wastes Into Resources with
the Integrated Harvest of Greywater,
Rainwater, and more” — PDF & PPT
versions
Water Harvesting for Food Production
Presentation — PDF & PPT versions

To access these files, go to

http://public.me.com/bradlank, and single
click on the folder named “Brad s
PowerPoint Presentations” to open the
folder. The individual files will show in the
next panel to the right. Next, single click on
the file you want. Another panel will open to
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the right — single click on the download

button to access the file. **Note: if you
would like to download all the files in the
folder at one time, double-clicking the folder
icon should initiate the process. If you have
any questions, send an email to
admin@harvestingrainwater.com.

Using Open-Source Tools

to Create a Site
Assessment Report in
Context
These instructions are (return to top)
intended to guide you through Google Earth
and Google Maps to select and compile
images, which, when enhanced with text and
other resources, form the basis of a site
assessment report with multiple layers and
levels of context. Additionally, use these
instructions to delineate catchment surfaces,
label various features, and calculate the areas
and rainfall income of these catchment
surfaces, using the common Word and Excel
applications. Click to download:
Instructions for Site Assessment in
Context (PDF file, 2.7 MB)

Download a sample report here, created

using these instructions: Site Assessment
Report in Context 110212 (Word file, 6.7
MB)

Download this sample report s Appendix A:

813 Catchment Area Spreadsheet
(Customizable Excel file, 41 KB)

This sample report was created using the

instructions above, and while accurate, is
intended only as a representation of the
techniques described, not necessarily as a
complete site report. Not counting any
time required to learn the techniques, it
took about 15-20 hours to compile. Note
that formatting on the Microsoft Office
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files may not be preserved through the

download process. Contact us if you d
like a different file type of any of these
files emailed to you.

Commission a Site Report

& Catchment Area
Spreadsheet for Your Site
If you are interested in (return to top)
having us create a site report and catchment
area spreadsheet for your site, this service is
available for a fee. The hourly rate for this is
$25 per hour. To give you a general sense of
what you would get and what it would cost,
take a look at the two files below, which
together took 3-4 hours to create, and the
two files in the section above, which together
took 15-20 hours to complete. Your report
can be made more or less detailed,
according to your specifications, can include
specific resources or a request to conduct
relevant research, and can focus in on
specific areas and aspects of your site, or be
more comprehensive. For more information,
send an email to
admin@harvestingrainwater.com.

Journey School Site Report (PDF file, 2.4

MB)
Journey School Catchment Area
Spreadsheet (PDF file, 45 KB)

For more handouts, click:

Greywater Handouts
Watergy & Climate

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