This twentieth-anniversary edition of the world's best-selling greywater book features a dozen more pages, complete information on the "laundry to landscape" system, new color plates, extensive revisions to every page, and dozens of new photos and figures. Topics include complete instructions for simple to more complex installations, how to deal with freezing, flooding, drought, failing septic tanks, low perk soil, and conditions in non-industrialized
regions; coordinating a team of professionals to get optimum results on high-end projects, and "radical plumbing" that uses 90% fewer resources.
"Create an Oasis describes how to choose, build, and use a simple greywater system (some can be completed in an afternoon). Going deeper, it explains how to integrate efficient fixtures, user habits, plant selection and location, rainwater, greywater, and freshwater irrigation for your soil and site conditions." --
"Art Ludwig's books inform and inspire us... They are survival guides in the age of global warming." -- Satish Kumar "Editor, RESURGENCE MAGAZINE"
"Greywater for dummies and greywater encyclopedia in oneinformation goldmine." -- Dan Chiras "author,The New Ecological Home; The Solar House"
"I recommend this book." -- Bill Mollison "THE PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE"
"Ludwig is a water visionary... The most practical and complete -presentation of the subject I have seen." -- Michael MacCaskey "Editor in Chief, NATIONAL GARDENING"
"Required reading for those who want to control their own destinies and responsibly steward
an increasingly dwindling resource: clean water." -- Jonathan Todd "JOHN TODD ECOLOGICAL DESIGN"
"The best, must-have resource on greywater." -- David Dobbs "Editor, HARROWSMITH COUNTRY LIFE"
"You'll be in deep greywater without this book!" -- Jeff Oldham "Head Technician, REAL GOODS"
"The best, must-have resource on greywater. This thorough book presents almost every design variation on greywater systems, from the simplest to the most complex, and gives the pros, cons, and cost of each, both in dollars and environmental terms." -- David Dobbs "Editor, Harrowsmith Country Life"