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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART 1: WATER-WISE BASICS""; ""1. Why Conserve Water?""; ""Reasons to Conserve Water""; ""Where Does Your Water Come From?""; ""What�s a Water-Wise Home?""; ""2. What�s Wrong with Our Water Systems?""; ""The Good News and Bad News""; ""Sources of Water""; ""Why Is Water Scarce?""; ""Sewage Treatment and Stormwater Pollution""; ""When Rain Pollutes: Stormwater""; ""A Better Water Future""; ""3. Saving Water in the Home andLandscape""; ""Cultivating a Water-Conserving Ethic""; ""Fix the Leaks!"" |
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""The Mini Makeover""""Does Your Landscape Havea Drinking Problem?""; ""Designing a Water-Wise Landscape""; ""Irrigation Systems""; ""Greywater, Rainwater, and Waterless Toilets""; ""PART 2: WATER-WISE SOLUTIONS""; ""4. Greywater Reuse: Planning Your Home System""; ""Identify Your Greywater Sources""; ""Your Home�s Drain, Waste, and Vent System""; ""Estimate Your Greywater Flows""; ""Find the Flow Rates of Faucets, Showerheads, and Washing Machines""; ""Soil Structure and Type""; ""Identify Your Soil Type with a Soil Ribbon Test""; ""Conduct an Infiltration Test""; ""Mulch Basins"" |
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""Choosing Plants for Greywater Irrigation""""How Much Water Do My Plants Want?""; ""System Design Considerations""; ""Plant-Friendly Soaps""; ""When Greywater Is Not a Great Idea""; ""Using Greywater to Flush""; ""Health and SafetyConsiderations""; ""Codes and Regulations""; ""5: Installing Your Greywater System""; ""Choosing a Greywater System""; ""Laundry-to-Landscape (L2L) System""; ""Installing an L2L Irrigation System""; ""Irrigation Options""; ""Branched Drain Gravity-Fed System (Without Storage)""; ""Installing a Branched Drain System""; ""How to Wire an Actuator"" |
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""Greywater System with Tank and Pump""""Building a Pumped System""; ""Manufactured Greywater Systems""; ""Other Types of Greywater Systems""; ""Plumbing Basics for Greywater Installation""; ""6. Rainwater Harvesting: Planning Your System""; ""How Will You Use the Rainwater?""; ""Keeping Rainwater in Your Landscape: Permeable Hardscape and Rain Gardens""; ""Roofwater Collection""; ""Basic Components of a Catchment System""; ""Using the Rain Indoors""; ""Rainwater Containers""; ""Codes and Regulations""; ""7: Building Rainwater Harvesting Systems""; ""Planning and Designing a Rain Garden"" |
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""Constructing a Rain Garden""""Roofwater Collection Systems""; ""Converting a Single 55-Gallon Rain Barrel""; ""Connecting Rain Barrels Together: A Daisy Chain""; ""Installing an Aboveground Plastic Rainwater Tank""; ""Irrigation Systems""; ""8: Waterless and Composting Toilets""; ""Composting Is Composting""; ""Toilet Types""; ""Using Urine as Fertilizer""; ""Choosing a Composting Toilet""; ""Building a Sawdust Bucket Toilet""; ""Building a Urine-Diverting Toilet""; ""Compost Piles and Bins""; ""Building a Barrel Composting Chamber with Netting""; ""Resources""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
| Summary |
Are you looking for ways to save water -- or money? This accessible guide by Laura Allen, founder of Greywater Action, explains how to use water smartly and efficiently, increasing supply, saving money, reducing wear on your septic system, and filling your home and garden needs. She describes proven conservation techniques, explains how to create a water-wise landscape, and provides illustrated, step-by-step instructionsfor setting up a waterless composting toilet as well as systems to reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and more. |
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Presents a guide to building systems for the home that reuse and conserve water, including constructing rain gardens, installing greywater systems, and purchasing a waterless composting toilet. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Water reuse.
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Water conservation.
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Water-supply.
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Gardens -- Irrigation.
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Gardens -- Irrigation. |
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Water conservation. |
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Water reuse. |
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Water-supply. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Allen, Laura, 1969- Water-wise home North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2015] 9781612121697 (DLC) 2014033674 (OCoLC)863195059 |
| ISBN |
9781603429207 : $24.95 |
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1603429204 : $24.95 |
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