The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape

Laura Allen

Feb 2015 · Sold by Storey Publishing, LLC

About this ebook

Save the earth’s most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficiently while fulfilling all of your home and garden needs. Learn how to create a water-wise landscape, reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and even set up a waterless composting toilet. Offering proven techniques in clear and accessible language, The Water-Wise Home makes it easy to help the environment and lower your household operating costs through conserving water.

Ratings and reviews

At first glance, I thought this might be another DIY book on frugal and sustainable ways to save some water. We already have the low-flow toilets, harvest rainwater, and try to plant it places to best use the natural terrain and conserve. What I wasn't expecting, and what is hidden in the title, is becoming Water-Wise. Not just for your home, but everyone in your home becoming wise about the water table and system in your area. This is a wonderful, cause-effect-solution book that is easy to read, well illustrated and extremely informative. You won't find a list of ten projects to save you some water. But you will find a detailed complete home and landscape walk-through that will help you prepare, establish, and implement ways to get the whole family on board saving water. This isn't just about cutting your water bill, this is about sustainability and environmental impact and change that we can all take part in.

About the author

Laura Allen is the author of The Water-Wise Home and cofounder of Greywater Action, a collaborative of educators who teach residents and tradespeople about affordable and simple household water systems that dramatically reduce water use and foster sustainable cultures of water. She leads classes and workshops, including the first training program for professional greywater installers, and participates in writing state government greywater and composting toilet codes. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.