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Watershed Maps Are Community Maps
September 22, 2011

by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com  A watershed is “that area of land, a bounded hydrological system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple…

Images of Contemporary Water-Harvesting Art
September 14, 2011

by Brad Lancaster © 2011 www.HarvestingRainwater.com  Show the flow. Cycle it. Celebrate it. Know it. And as you do, show others the way. The following three images are installations that I feel show…

Images of Ancient Water-Harvesting Art
September 4, 2011

by Brad Lancaster © 2011 www.HarvestingRainwater.com  There is a tradition of harvesting rainwater in all human-inhabited drylands of the world where it rains (and a great many wet areas that also experience dry…

Water Wise Women of Jordan
September 6, 2010

by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com  Jordan Valley, Jordan, 2009 One day my guides Mohammed Ayesh of NCARE and Iqbal of JOHUD took me to an oasis. The village we were in was strewn with…

Palm Oasis and Red Bread at Al Absaa, Saudi Arabia
July 24, 2010

by Brad Lancaster www.HarvestingRainwater.com  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…

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