Water Harvesting
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Evolutions on Mr. Phiri’s Water-Harvesting Plantation, 1995–2016
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to return to Zimbabwe and to the farm of some of my prime…
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How Does a First Flush System Work?
What is a first flush system? It’s a system where you flush the first dirty rainwater after it rains. This…
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Groundwater Re-charging
It’s a rainy Monsoon day. Today, it’s water, water everywhere, but soon there will not be a drop to drink.…
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Returning the Rain to Jordan
Alice has recently had this article published on www.alaraby.co.uk. “The most severe problem we face in Jordan is water scarcity,”…
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Swales in North Texas Take on 2.5 inches of Rain and Perform Perfectly
In this video, Jack Spirko, shows just how effective good Permaculture Earthworks are in capturing 26,000 Gallons of water from…
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Understanding Water Part 1: The Theory of Flow
It’ such a key part of our lives – indeed, all of life – that it can be said to…
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Bulldozer Digging Swales
Bulldozer Digging Swales from Midwest Permaculture. The Design We had been invited by a family in Southern Missouri to assist…
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Finding Water in the Desert
We were recently filming in Nevada, USA, visiting interesting high dry and cold climate systems. We went out in search…
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Swales (Continuous Contour Trenches) Bring Water and Life Back to Maharashtra, India
This (unfortunately low-res) video shares the clear, practical benefits of bringing sensible low-tech Permaculture water harvesting techniques such as swales…
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Experimenting with Overflowing Circles and Slow-Flow Swales (Panama)
The jungle garden I am not Bill Mollison or Geoff Lawton, they will both happily report; rather, I am but…
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