Laura Allen

The Water-Wise Home (eBook, ePUB)

How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Learn how to reduce water use in your home and build systems that reuse the water you do use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781603429207
• Artikelnr.: 42438382

Autorenporträt

Laura Allen is the author of The Water-Wise Home and cofounder of Greywater Action, a collaborative of educators who teach residents and tradespeople about affordable and simple household water systems that dramatically reduce water use and foster sustainable cultures of water. She leads classes and workshops, including the first training program for professional greywater installers, and participates in writing state government greywater and composting toilet codes. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Water
Wise Basics Chapter 1 Why Conserve Water? Reasons to Conserve Water
Where Does Your Water Come From? 
What's a Water
Wise Home? Chapter 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 Chapter 3 Saving Water in the Home and Landscape Cultivating a Water
Conserving Ethic
Fix the Leaks!
The Mini Makeover
Does Your Landscape Have a Drinking Problem?
Designing a Water
Wise Landscape
Irrigation Systems
Greywater, Rainwater, and Waterless Toilets Part 2 Water Wise Solutions Chapter 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 with a Soil Ribbon Test
Mulch Basins
Choosing Plants for Greywater Irrigation
How Much Water Do My Plants Want? 
System Design Consideration
Plant
Friendly Soaps
When Greywater Is Not a Great Idea
Using Greywater to Flush
Health and Safety Considerations
Codes and Regulations Chapter 5 Installing Your Greywater System Choosing a Greywater System
Laundry
to
Landscape (L2L) System
Installing an L2L Irrigation System
Irrigation Options
Branch Drain Gravity
Fed System (Without Storage)
Installing a Branched Drain System
How to Wire an Actuator
Greywater System with Tank and Pump
Building a Pumped System
Manufactured Greywater Systems
Other Types of Greywater Systems
Plumbing Basics for Greywater Installation Chapter 6 Rainwater Harvesting: Planning Your System How Will You Use the Rainwater?
Keeping Rainwater in Your Landscape: Permeable Hardscape and Rain Gardens
Roofwater Collection
Basci Components of a Catchment System
Using Rain Indoors
Rainwater Containers
Codes and Regulations Chapter 7 Building Rainwater Harvesting Systems Planning and Designing a Rain Garden
Constructing a Rain Garden
Roofwater Collection Systems
Converting a Single 55
Gallon Barrel
Connecting Rain Barrels Together: A Daisy Chain
Installing an Aboveground Plastic Rainwater Tank
Irrigation Systems Chapter 8 Waterless and Composting Toilets Composting Is Composting
Toilet Types
Composting Toilets and the Law
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 Acknowledgements Index