Tucson Rain Water Harvesting
June 5, 2008
Post Tags: Arizona-Daily-Star , Brad-Lancaster , Rain-Water-Harvesting , Tucson-Indian-Jones , Tucson-Monsoon-Season , Water-Conservation
The Tucson Monsoon season is just 10 days away (now that we have an official start date of June 15, 2008). This yearly period in nature brings about a renewed interest in Rain Water Harvesting.
I almost missed the article in yesterday “Arizona Daily Star” because the title of the article is really a misnomer “Conservationist tap into monsoon“. This is what is happening, but “Rain Water Harvesting and Tucson Monsoon Season” would have been a more descriptive title.
It is a topic that caught my interest over a year ago and lead me to a meeting where Brad Lancaster (Tucson’s water harvesting Indiana Jones) was presenting how we can renew the living sponge through water harvesting in Tucson and what has happened to it since the influx of wetlanders thinking and practices into our desert community and region.
Brad has now completed his second book on Rain Water Harvesting which I need to get ordered for myself.
If you are thinking about moving to Tucson, or an arid region of the country you really should take the time to be informed about Rain Water Harvesting in Tucson.
- Read the article above from the “Arizona Daily Star“
- Check out Brad’s website you can find where he will be speaking in the future on his site
- Get his books, they are very interesting reading and very informative to our responsibilities to the environment as we move from being wetlanders to desert dwellers.
It isn’t expensive to do some things which will conserve water and make your home more enjoyable year round. If you take the opportunity to hear Brad speak on this subject you won’t regret it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 am
Here’s a greener road to travel
A typical car wash lasting 10 minutes uses approximately 100 gallons of water. What if we could conserve hundreds of gallons of water in one week. Go to a local car wash that uses recycled water or use an eco-friendly waterless car wash waterless car wash.
It takes only 15 minutes, is effective and uses no water
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Dave,
here’s an even greener way to travel. I wash my car about twice a year on average. That cuts down a lot of water use. I also take advantage of monsoon rains to give it a good bath.