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Landscape Architecture Harvest Notes
Rainwater harvesting: An Ancient Tech - Cisterns in Landscape Architecture by Daniel Winterbottom; April 2000
used historically by Meso-Americans, Romans, Middle East
older civilizations had larger cisterns, 2 million gallons below Jerusalem, 200k liter at Church of Santo Domingo in Oaxaca
Today in Bermuda and USVI rainwater harvesting is required, tax credits in some places,
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center near Austin, 300k gallons per year collected and used,
best roof material for catching water from is stainless steel/galvanized
leave water in a concrete cistern to prevent it from drying out and cracking
wooden cisterns were common on building tops, can be very durable, made with redwood or cypress
$1 per 1 gallon, circa 2000, for a water harvesting system
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