Water Harvester: An Invitation to Abundance

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  • Опубликовано: 24 июл 2022
  • #Tucson resident @Brad Lancaster believes that cities around the world can live off #rainwater. This is the story of how he transformed his neighborhood by experimenting with #waterharvesting, worked with the city to legalize those methods, and empowered others by proving that abundance rooted in sustainability is possible.
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  • @monicacruz4407
    @monicacruz4407 Год назад +7

    If every city had a few Brad Lancasters….good to see something being done at policy level in Tucson. Spain is desperately in need of rain harvesting, the multiple challenges of massive, extraction agriculture, mass tourism with lots of water used in swimming pools and thirsty lawns plus erosion and run off, it all adds up to further climate change. When a fire comes along it’s disastrous. Pockets of regenerative agriculture/permaculture/syntropic farming etc, but no will at government level. As Brad says, you have to be the change you want to see instead of complaining. Me saco el sombrero caballero 😎👏🌱🌱🌱

  • @HarvestingRainwater
    @HarvestingRainwater Год назад +16

    If you all would like to see more of my (Brad Lancaster) work, be sure to check out my website www.HarvestingRainwater.com (where I have many image galleries, videos, case studies, resources, and more), the new full-color editions of my books "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" (available at deep discount direct from me at my website), and www.NeighborhoodForesters.org (where you'll get a lot of the info on our rain-irrigated neighborhood native food forestry work).

  • @CristalPNL
    @CristalPNL 17 дней назад

    ❤ from 🇧🇷 it’s so good to see that people around the world 🗺️ are doing something to help heal the planet 🌍

  • @carldupoldt9260
    @carldupoldt9260 3 месяца назад +1

    Excellent video

  • @outingsforoldladieswhoaren7664
    @outingsforoldladieswhoaren7664 Год назад +3

    A great man of our time.

  • @1MonthNoRegrets
    @1MonthNoRegrets Год назад +2

    epic film. Shows how EVERYONE can reverse drought and restore their local ecosystem by capturing water. There are no excuses for not capturing rainwater everywhere- in every city, on every street, farm, forest. This is how we create an oasis of life.

  • @charlesanderson32
    @charlesanderson32 Год назад +7

    All States and Counties should implement these systems! ASAP

  • @richardvasquez2327
    @richardvasquez2327 Год назад +10

    Great Video!! Hopefully this can go viral and have an impact on all communities. Love to have Brad present in my community.

  • @Freshbreath100
    @Freshbreath100 11 месяцев назад +5

    From the suburbs north of phoenix here. I bought brads book, have done a ton of research on the subject matter and watched almost all the videos ft him. I'm implementing a rainwater harvesting basin at my house with the help of roof runoff, panting a cottonwood, native wildflowers, etc etc its turning out really well.

  • @tthappyrock368
    @tthappyrock368 Год назад +6

    What a great way to show how small changes can make a big difference in our environment and in the efficient use of readily available resources!

  • @MichaelBrown-be7vn
    @MichaelBrown-be7vn 9 месяцев назад +2

    Brad, you are amazing! I have followed your work for years and have incorporated it into my landscape here in Ohio.... what I love is your disregard for idiotic reactionary mindsets....I have encountered that...in ways that cannot be expressed publicly.... inspirational.

  • @jamiesomma2566
    @jamiesomma2566 Год назад +2

    Brad, was great to get to interview you in 2015 on Matt’s Permaculture Tonight podcast. Was sharing your book with new friends in Kenya suffering through drought. Perfect timing for the web conference as I was able to share this video right after they attended the ECHO Symposium in Arusha TZ last week. You and Zephaniah are still my heroes! Vaya con Dios, amigo!

  • @jameskniskern2261
    @jameskniskern2261 Год назад +3

    I was stationed in Tucson from 1991 to 1994. I recognize the city in the flashback photos.
    It looks like a different place in those neighborhoods!

  • @wildlifegardenssydney7492
    @wildlifegardenssydney7492 Год назад +9

    I have watched Brad Lancaster since the beginning. He is masterful. Such a great example. Such a great educator. Great practical examples for everyone to follow. Water = life!

  • @ruthgardner-loew8467
    @ruthgardner-loew8467 Год назад +7

    This video is an incredible teaching tool. If seeing is believing, then everyone should be sharing and re-sharing this story as often as possible. I'm studying Permaculture Education with the goal of teaching people how to live more sustainable, fulfilled lives that are in harmony with the environment. Brad Lancaster's story demonstrates how and why this goal is attainable and why it's worth striving for.

  • @tonyswatermaker3158
    @tonyswatermaker3158 10 месяцев назад +2

    Sharing your prooved knowledge is an unprecedented work for our generations to come. You remind me of John the Baptist; "A voice of one crying out in the wilderness". Hopefully people will start to listen. Keep up the good work. 👌👍👋👋

  • @karenjarling7730
    @karenjarling7730 Год назад +4

    Thank you for sharing more about Mr Zephania Phiri Maseko's own story along side your own. An elegant and valuable clip as always Brad. 🙏

  • @greywateraction1346
    @greywateraction1346 Год назад +6

    Very inspiring video! There is so much potential to have beautiful, beneficial landscapes sustained by rainwater. Thank you, Brad, for all your work sharing this knowledge.

  • @SolidGoldShows
    @SolidGoldShows Год назад +4

    Inspirational. Thank you Brad

  • @VR-kp2rv
    @VR-kp2rv Год назад +6

    This is fantastic! Seeing before and after photos is helpful. Genius. Really really amazing. I WISH these concepts were taught in school...instead of so much of the useless rubbish my children learn now. This is sustainable living! Living with intention. Unselfish life. What a BEAUTIFUL life!! And you are sharing it.....so others can experience a better life....simply beautiful!

  • @IowaKeith
    @IowaKeith Год назад +17

    If water harvesting techniques were enforced at a federal level our rivers and lakes would run clean, and we would bring back water to the west. If the west were to be revegetated, the weather patterns in the country would return to normal, the mountains would regain their snowcapped, and it would put a permanent end to climate change as other countries followed suit. The fact that the government doesn't enforce this tells you everything you need to know about governments worldwide.

    • @matthewcain2880
      @matthewcain2880 6 месяцев назад +3

      Have you got involved with your local city council?

    • @user-mt6qh2rl5z
      @user-mt6qh2rl5z Месяц назад

      No federal involvement. Keep the government out of our business. Out of our lives. A tax credit is far more beneficial for the Citizens and the Cities. Rain water is Life. And water after your initial investment is reclaimed by saving in Your Water Bill. If you are not Harvesting your water you are not saving money. And in a Shit Hits the Fan sarnario you have water when everyone else dies from lack of water. Be safe be vigilant in everything you do.advice from the Specialist List. Look for us coming soon

  • @arialblack87
    @arialblack87 Год назад +4

    I highly recommend the books! They are an easy read yet packed full with great information. Diagrams, drawings, full-colour pictures. I only wish there was a volume 3!

  • @teresaprice5070
    @teresaprice5070 Год назад +6

    I am so blessed to have attended several of Brad's workshops, since I moved to Cochise County, Arizona, 20 years ago...I've long believed, as he does, that we can live quite abundantly without depleting--even reversing--the water table, and I routinely drive through Dunbar Spring Neighborhood, simply to be reminded of that vision and to be re-inspired in my efforts towards it. I'm unashamed to call him a hero!! 🥰🤗

  • @ronniemcmaster8657
    @ronniemcmaster8657 Год назад +3

    I live in Boise where we get maybe one inch of rain more than you and would love the chance to prove these techniques in landscaping. Sadly, we have developers from California who build on a model of waste, where the water goes down drainage ditches and everyone has their sprinklers running. They design in nice greenbelts for people to walk around their communities, but they're designed to require irrigation. That irrigation is usually happening during the prime time for walking, so people avoid it to not get sprayed. I would love to be the guy they hire to fix this. Thank you for your books and videos! They're priceless!

  • @joshuaedwards6903
    @joshuaedwards6903 Год назад +4

    What a fantastic film about inspiring ideas!

  • @simonemarques8014
    @simonemarques8014 Год назад +4

    Everyone can do better. Thanks for inspiring us (all over the world).

  • @vidamace6230
    @vidamace6230 Год назад +4

    Every state in the country can do this, it’s called abundance of water. A gift we aren’t using

  • @ModestMaker
    @ModestMaker Год назад +3

    Thank you for helping us see through the fog- mission accomplished.

  • @melissacano5663
    @melissacano5663 Год назад +3

    Love this! Love Tucson!

  • @karlettachief3512
    @karlettachief3512 Год назад +10

    Inspiring work Brad. I grew up with my family harvesting rain water and melting snow in and outside the house. It is wonderful that Tucson is open to changing their ordinances to include ways to harvest the rain.

  • @matthewcain2880
    @matthewcain2880 Год назад +2

    That Friday Folding bike is badass

  • @zanewalsh1812
    @zanewalsh1812 Год назад +2

    Time well spent. Thanks Brad for being one of the pioneers in showing us about this important path forward
    🌎🌏🌍☮️

  • @mightyprotong
    @mightyprotong Год назад +5

    This is amazing, thank you.

  • @POVNatka
    @POVNatka День назад

    Brilliant

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy Год назад +7

    Was hoping for how Brad's rainwater harvesting helps farmers and ranchers on a larger scale. That's as much a part of the equation as urban rainwater harvesting.
    It's all important.
    Check out his current editions on Rainwater Harvesting in Drylands and Beyond.
    Was hoping to see a milk sheep.
    The Whoo Hoo! at the end.
    Brad Lancaster 1, Al Gore 0...

  • @atruefreethinker1944
    @atruefreethinker1944 8 месяцев назад +1

    something that is not addressed is that ALL that greenery is a filtration system to convert CO2 into O2. which is something many forget that plants do that.

  • @negrotski
    @negrotski Год назад +3

    Nice one thanks 🙏

  • @atomicsmith
    @atomicsmith Год назад +2

    Beautiful video.

  • @keeparizonawild156
    @keeparizonawild156 27 дней назад

    Brad is da man

  • @mischevious
    @mischevious 8 месяцев назад +1

    “We have this.. temporary luxury of being able to purchase our way out of a dilemma for a little while longer.”
    Just wanted to repeat that in print, with emphasis on the last few words.

  • @stevenmansfield5772
    @stevenmansfield5772 Год назад +3

    They gotta make a statue of you in Arizona

    • @Pam501
      @Pam501 2 месяца назад

      with a self-cleaning fountain! ❤

  • @kenhunt5153
    @kenhunt5153 Год назад +3

    Now there is talk of sending Mississippi River water to the West.
    There is talk in the Utah Legislature of a pipeline from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake to replenish the Lake.
    Yet, my State, Utah has the second highest water use per person the Country. We have the lowest water rates in the Country.
    Utah is the 2nd driest State in the Country.

  • @darthchingaso3613
    @darthchingaso3613 Год назад +2

    It’s interesting to see traditional practices of the region re-emerge decades after being deemed so primitive they needed to be forcefully ended and made to assimilate to the capitalist lifestyle…

  • @AnthonyMinhNguyen
    @AnthonyMinhNguyen Год назад +2

    20:14 Is that Thomas Meixner? Wow

  • @litafenton4795
    @litafenton4795 Год назад +1

    That's awesome. I need help as d ideas to get my place where I want

  • @rezayaseri2790
    @rezayaseri2790 4 дня назад

    💙💚💙💚💙💚

  • @litafenton4795
    @litafenton4795 Год назад

    Lived in Tuscan as a child

  • @andresamplonius315
    @andresamplonius315 4 месяца назад

    Ever tried planting Vetiver grass? Maybe you would like it.

  • @user-mt6qh2rl5z
    @user-mt6qh2rl5z Месяц назад +1

    If the City of Tucson would give the home owners that do water harvesting a tax credit by giving them tax credit towards Property Taxes. To pay back the home owners for the cost of water Harvesting. It would not cost the city any money up front but the water crisis this will keep Tucson from drying up. And losing population because people move because of lack of water this could be done all over the country. Providing the home owners provide proof of the installation of the Rain water Harvesting system . D I Y of installed by a handyman or contractor.

  • @leedza
    @leedza 4 месяца назад +1

    Zephaniah's legacy has been taken the furthest by Brad. The likes of Zephaniah and Yacouba Sawagodo are the Bill Mollisons of Africa.

  • @glenminnick3724
    @glenminnick3724 Год назад

    I lived in Arizona for many years, convince me !

    • @ModestMaker
      @ModestMaker Год назад +4

      Take a walk through his neighborhood- convinced 👍

  • @mizjulio
    @mizjulio Год назад +1

  • @nanjefrederickdimson4900
    @nanjefrederickdimson4900 3 месяца назад

    Name of the book 📚, please

    • @Tronamovie
      @Tronamovie 3 месяца назад +1

      Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

  • @chriscritchell5115
    @chriscritchell5115 Год назад

    Too many adverts.