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