Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged

by Suzy Banks

This handbook is cute, funny and smart - smart enough to teach almost anyone how to install a personal rainwater collection system. It covers the entire works, from determining how much rainwater... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966417062
• ISBN13: 9780966417067
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Tank Town Publishing
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book for those interested in water collection.

Good, practical information with funny narrative and illustrations (Example: look at the drawings that accompany the description of (pipe) nipples). Good read...

If you have >18" annual precip., get this book!

Excellent explanation of how to build a rooftop rain collection system, plus great writing & illustration style. The book is both comprehensive & understandable. With only 10" of annual precipitation, we would need a gigantic collection area and storage tank. Nevertheless, I count this book among the top 100 independence books in my library. Another way to have a great independent water system is known as the "Raney well" if you have wet soils near a creek/river nearby. It is basically a reverse drainfield. It collects, instead of distributing. Because the creek water is filtered, cysts and bacteria are removed. This book explains how a reverse osmosis system works. If you have to use a creek, lake or shallow well for your water supply you might consider an RO system. It might be a better choice than a deep well if the grid goes down.

Wish I read it sooner!

So I have been installing rainbarrels for a while now and now I am installing more and more cisterns with pumps and filtration. I started back in 2001 and in 2005 I started my own business. There is no apprenticeship program to do this work. It is just learn as you go. I really wish I had gotten this book back when I first started. It is packed with great info and advice. Some of it I have since learned on my journey and a quite a few bits of info were still new to me. If you are doing serious research for a paper, get the Eric Nissen- Peterson book. It is a very dense book full of great info and it has installation instructions for rainwater in less developed locations. If you want a book that will give you all of the practical info for installing a rainwater system in the US I highly recommend Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged. Art Ludwig's book is good also. Good luck. Brad Harvest The Sky

Helped me a lot

This book lives up to it's name, it gives you detailed instructions clearly. This has been very helpful for me since I have no running water and must use rainwater. Highly recommended for anyone interested in conserving water

Funny & HELPFUL

Simple, straight forward, very useful, but lacking in the elegance that some may require. Enjoyed it throughly and recommend it. This book will help understand some of the ways that you can collect rainwater without over powering your brain. It will also help you to think out side the box, or perhaps in it if you don't mind getting wet. One of the clearest, funniest and most useful books on rainwater.