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SUMMARY:Guided Water-Harvesting Home & Neighborhood Block Tour with Brad Lancaster – Tucson\, AZ
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: 8am – 10am\, Sunday\, November 22\, 2026 \nWHERE: 813 N. 9th Avenue\, Tucson\, AZ 85705 \nCOST: $15 per person. Must pay/register in advance. No-shows cannot be refunded.\nLimited number of spaces. First paid\, first served. \n  \nI will post a BUY BUTTON here about a month before the event \n  \nCome tour with the guy who wrote the books on water harvesting and more! \nBrad Lancaster\, author of the just released\, full-color\, revised editions of his award-winning books “Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond\, Volumes 1 and 2” will guide this tour of he and his brother’s family’s water-harvesting & landscape design award-winning 1/8th-acre urban property and surrounding block of the neighborhood. \n100\,000 gallons of rain and stormwater is harvested annually on the property and in the adjoining public right-of-way. You’ll see examples of: \n• an integrated “tiny house” where a one-car garage was converted into a cottage or “garottage” that passive heats and cools itself for free with well-designed winter sun access & summer shading. 75% of its building materials were salvaged from the waste stream;\n• solar cooking\, solar water heating\, and solar power;\n• legal & inexpensive site-built composting toilets\, which helped legalize such toilets state-wide;\n• organic gardens getting 95+% of their irrigation needs met by harvested rainwater;\n• inexpensive gravity-fed rainwater harvesting systems providing safe & delicious rainwater for all domestic needs including drinking – with no expensive pumps or mechanical filtration systems;\n• extensive gravity-fed greywater harvesting systems turning “waste” waters into resource waters.\n• how a joyous 20 plus-years of car-free life has been possible (cargo bicycle is key)\, and saves over $8\,000 annually \nIn the neighborhood part of the tour you’ll see:\n• water-harvesting traffic-calming features that helped turn a dangerous streets into welcoming bicycle boulevards\,\n• street-runoff harvesting strategies that use street runoff to freely irrigate street trees and control flooding – and new evolutions and improvements on these strategies\n• learn how these once “pre-legal” street runoff-harvesting strategies were legalized\, rebated\, and mandated\n• native food forests doubling as wildlife and pollinator corridors that canopy over public foot paths\,\n• how an annual neighborhood rain and tree planting effort has resulted in the planting of over 1\,800 trees and thousands of understory plants in the neighborhood\n• how a county grant helped pay for water-harvesting strategies harvesting over 1 million gallons of annual stormwater in and along the streets\n• how a neighborhood-organized Neighborhood Foresters program is training up the neighborhood to steward these features and is implementing more.\n• public art & other strategies reclaiming the commons for more life! \n  \nBrad will also be selling (at deep discount) & signing copies of\n• the newly released & revised\, full-color editions of his award-winning books \n• the new SPANISH EDITION of his book Cosecha de agua de lluvia para zonas áridas y más allá \n• Plant the Rain t-shirts\, caps\, and stickers \n• Siembra la lluvia caps and stickers \n  \n  \nFor self-guided water tours in Tucson see: \nhttps://www.harvestingrainwater.com/tour/ \n  \n  \nHere is a video of a 2016 tour of my place (more evolutions have since occurred)… \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcAMXm9zITg&t=15s
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