Product Description

A do-it-yourself guide to designing, building, and maintaining water tanks, cisterns and ponds, and sustainably managing groundwater storage. It will help you with your independent water system, fire protection, and disaster preparedness, at low cost and using principles of ecological design. Includes building instructions for several styles of ferro cement water tanks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3086 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 125 pages

Doug Pratt, Real Goods Technical Editor
If you run a water system, for a weekend shack or a whole community, you need this book!

Zane Satterfield, P.E., National Drinking Water Clearinghouse
On average water systems, this book will pay for itself a hundred times over in errors avoided and maintenance savings.

Claire Anderson, Home Power Magazine, Mother Earth News
Practical design solutions, comprehensive illustrations, and plenty of photos—a thorough treatment of a topic that's vital to our survival.

Customer Reviews

another great book from oasis design
I love all those oasis manuals. Once again Art Ludwig surprises us with a manual full of info reagarding water catchment and storage. Although I'm working in this field for more than 10 years, I always find something new and interesting in Oasis manuals and ther are a fundamental part of my permaculture-libary

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocemen
This book can help you for how to planning the different water systems in rural and urban areas, the best is how to make ferrocement water tanks.

Read the book, Build the tank
I Built a 10,000 Gal tank straight out of this book for US$ 1,500.
It looks good & it doesn't leak.
What more can you ask for ?