Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

Drops in a Bucket Blog

This blog is a celebration of wonderful little efforts that lead to great things. In the beginning those small efforts often seem like little more than a drop in a bucket. However, this is great if they’re drops in the bucket of abundance. With enough drops we’ll fill the bucket! A drop in a bucket is a problem only if it’s a drop in the wrong bucket – the bucket of scarcity.

My hope is that this blog will help plant many seeds to enhance good efforts already in the works and to influence positive change on the local level, simultaneously affecting the global.

March 12, 2010

Green Burials

By Brad Lancaster
© 2010 Drops in a Bucket Blog, www.HarvestingRainwater.com
When I was little I was terrified of death. I often cried myself to sleep as I thought of the end of life. It seemed so bleak, pointless, and severe.
Mom tried to comfort me with the concept of going to heaven. This did not reassure me [...]

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July 27, 2009

Garden Hose Dangers and Recommendations

© 2009 Brad Lancaster, www.HarvestingRainwater.com

Many garden hoses leach lead and other chemicals into the water as it sits in the hose. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brass fittings are often the culprits.
Yuck – the water tastes like lead!
To reduce such risk, purchase, use, and/or drink only from hoses labeled safe for drinking water. Never buy any [...]

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March 24, 2009

Harvesting Urban Drool

How the harvest of urban nuisance runoff is reviving a community

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March 6, 2009

Crushed Rock Landscapes–Bandage on a Larger Problem

Crushed rock or decomposed granite used excessively on landscapes grinds up mountains to spread them out in yards, but there are alternatives.

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January 23, 2009

Australian Water Efficiency Recommendations to U.S. Cities

Recommendations from an Australian delegation touring U.S. cities to share their experiences with water efficiency as a result of prolonged drought

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January 7, 2009

Street Orchards for Community Security

Harvesting street runoff to passively irrigate community orchards and support public celebrations

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December 19, 2008

Great Water-Harvesting Financial Incentives in Arizona

Check out, and apply for, up to $1,200 in these tax credits for water harvesting systems

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December 14, 2008

Parking Lot to Parking Orchard

A simple retrofit of a parking lot enabling it to harvest water and grow food-producing shade trees.

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August 23, 2008

Farming in the City with Runoff From a Street

How runoff from apartment roofs, a parking lot, and a city street irrigated a bountiful 1-acre city farm

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August 23, 2008

Drops in a Bucket – welcome to my new blog

An introduction

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