By Brad Lancaster © 2019 HarvestingRainwater.com I love water and seek it out when I hike—especially tinajas, natural water pools in the desert. Such ephemeral pools can be created with simple strategies in…
September 8, 2019
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April 10, 2018
by Brad Lancaster © 2018www.HarvestingRainwater.com Greywater harvesting—the practice of directing the drain water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and clothes washers to your landscape plantings—can lead to big water savings. It turns “waste”…
September 22, 2017
by Brad Lancaster © 2017 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Southern Arizona has a rich water-harvesting history that is too often forgotten or lost. Though sometimes gems are dusted off, unearthed, remembered, or even celebrated—and they…
November 26, 2016
This blog entry was graciously provided by J. Tabatabaee Yazdi, who hosted me when I presented at the Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association conference in 2014. You can see my writings and photos…
October 16, 2016
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Earlier this year, while visiting the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya, I saw some of the worst erosion I’ve yet witnessed, while also experiencing a variety of growing oases.…
October 9, 2016
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Joseph Saitabao saw perennial water where no one else did. He saw it around Mount Suswa, Kenya, where no one lived during the dry season due to…
October 1, 2016
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com A bare beginning When I moved to the Dunbar/Spring neighborhood in 1994, much of the public right-of-way was not a pleasant place to walk. Most of the…
September 28, 2016
September 9, 2016
by Brad Lancaster www.SunAndShadeHarvesting.com Where are we? There is so much light we cannot see. According to NPR, nearly 80 percent of people in North America cannot see the Milky Way in the…
May 16, 2016
by Brad Lancaster © 2016 www.HarvestingRainwater.com Earlier this year I had the opportunity to return to Zimbabwe and to the farm of some of my prime water-harvesting mentors, Mr. Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and…