Alexandra Crook: Water-Wise Home, The

Water-Wise Home, The

Review "If every home were fully retrofitted with all the projects in this book, we would be well on our way to water security and watershed recovery.

" -- Brock Dolman, director of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's WATER Institute "This book is the real deal. Laura Allen lives, practices, and teaches what she writes about. I've used her water-harvesting systems and composting toilets, along with those of many of her students, colleagues, and mentors -- they all work wonderfully! Read this book, and yours could too.

" -- Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond From the Back Cover Even as severe droughts become more common and the water crisis heats up worldwide, you can radically reduce water use in your own home.

Laura Allen is your expert guide to building systems that conserve and reuse water while saving money and meeting the needs of your home and garden.

These practical, low-tech solutions are an essential part of our new water future. See all

The book describes the water crisis-national and global, present and future - and then presents options for saving water through conservation, creating a water-wise landscape, and creating water-conserving systems.

It offers detailed, illustrated instructions on creating systems to reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and set up a waterless composting toilet.

Consumer review about Water-Wise Home, The :
Great book full of practical questions answered: when, where, how, why, what, who, which -- EVERYTHING. Includes legal stuff you may want to look into for your area and more. If you are to get one book on this topic at all, I highly recommend this one! Oh, and there are diagrams, too, for the visually inclined. So no excuses, if you've always thought that someday you might just want to do all this. Someday is today. Get it. NOW.(Read more)