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Waking Waters
Guiding Your Land in Stewardship Through Responsibly Harvesting Water.

Over the course of time, urbanization and poor land management practices on rural properties have led to waterways that are more prone to flooding, streams with unstable morphologies, dropping groundwater levels, and poorer water quality.  Designing and installing a comprehensive water harvesting system on your property is one way to reverse the impacts of urbanization on your watershed.  

This series, when taken in its entirety, exposes you to all aspects of a comprehensive water harvesting system for your property, allowing you to guide your land in stewardship as part of a widespread watershed restoration effort.


Recent articles

  Roof Water Harvesting for a Low Impact Water Supply
Feb 18, 2010
Roof Water Harvesting for Low Impact Water Supply is a great e book that features the Brazilian Ball Pre-Filter System: A Case Study as well as several great pictures of roof catchment systems that are replicable in most situations.  It is full of great diagrams, pictures and resources.  A must read for anyone installing a rain catchment system.
  Earthworks for Water Harvesting and Winter Prep
Nov 3, 2009
Water This is a great outline if you are just learning about water harvesting or if you want to teach a workshop on water harvesting.  The value of this session comes from learning the big picture of water harvesting, how it is a tool of watershed restoration, and seeing how many techniques can be easily implemented in an urban yard within several hours.  From this experience we can envision how the watershed would react if we all looked after our yards in this way.
  Brock Dolman- Video and Poem
Oct 1, 2009
Brock in WaterHere is a great video and poem by Brock Dolman to wet your appetite for next weeks guild meeting with Brock.  Make sure you mark our calendars for October 8th at 5pm PST as we dive into Basins of Relations on a 1 hour intimate phone call with Brock Dolman.Details will follow.
  Water Harvesting in the Landscape: Beyond Downspouts and Tanks
Aug 27, 2009
Goals of this session
a)    To illustrate why water harvesting and watershed restoration is important given the modern context of our watersheds
b)    To give an understanding of holistic water harvesting theory
c)    To give participants a framework by which they can evaluate their property with water harvesting in mind
d)    To expose participants to a variety of water harvesting tools that can be used in the landscape
  Basins of Relations: Restoring a Watershed State of Being
May 7, 2009
Watershed, catchment, drainage, basin, cuenca by any name they function the same, and everyone on the planet lives in one, sailors on the sea alone excepted. Watersheds at all scales are uniquely evolved geomorphic, hydrological, and biological entities that provide permaculturists a most efficacious benchmark for judging the wisdom of our past, present and future land use practices.
  Design and Installation of a Roof Water Catchment System
Mar 17, 2009
  Learn the tools to install a roff catchment system of any scale, from rain barrel to large tanks.  FInd out the calculations you will need in order to size your system as well as useful resources for your own area.