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Lancaster residence image gallery

How we’re harvesting, cycling, and playing with multiple, free, on-site waters and what they grow…
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Water-harvesting parking lot, garage, and driveway image gallery

Directing pavement runoff to boost pavement-side life, while increasing available rainfall multifold…
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Greywater harvesting image gallery

Examples harnessing the potential of free, on-site greywater…
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Videos

Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance

Brad’s TEDxTucson talk, Planting the Rain to Grow Abundance
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This green oasis is a drought-proof village in Rajasthan

A video on the village and villagers of Laporiya (featured as a case study in the Introduction of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition), and how they turned water scarcity into water abundance by harvesting the rain and revegetating their watershed.
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Plant the rain—don’t drain it—to end the drought with passive water harvesting by Brad Lancaster

This video was shot in early summer 2021 coming out of the driest year on record with record heat, and finally got 1.7 inches (43 mm) of rain 7-2021. But almost everyone let the vast majority of that rain drain away! For them, the drought continues. But for those who planted and harvested the rain, the drought ended where water has deeply infiltrated and abundance has been renewed!
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