Water Systems

Essential Rainwater Harvesting is a comprehensive manual for designing, building, and maintaining water-harvesting systems for the warm and cold climates of the world. Presenting design considerations and approaches for the most common household rainwater supply scenarios.

Step into the golden age of imagination with A Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories Collection, a masterfully curated anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in classic science fiction. This timeless volume brings together visionary storytelling from Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, E. E. Smith, John W. Campbell Jr., Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and William Tenn—authors who helped shape modern speculative fiction.

Are you ready to try something new and different, that could lead you to living a much happier life? About your brain, you will learn how to do the unthinkable to desensitize yourself from all these negative emotions to ensure they have lesser effect on you, and the effect of your surroundings on your personality. About your attitude and mindset, you will learn how stoicism can help you see beyond yourself and truly immerse yourself in the broader context of life and how you can learn to control your emotions through the use of stoicism.

When was the last time you remember feeling like yourself? For many of us, it’s been way too long. Chapter by chapter, More YourSELF rekindles your natural sense of curiosity toward yourself, other people, and the great big world around you. You’ll be led, one step at a time, out of stuckness into your most authentic self and a more joy-filled, purposeful life. How? By exchanging assumptions and certainties for wonderment and question marks.

Tankless Water Heater Repair: How to Maintain and Fix Your OnDemand System is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide designed for homeowners, renters, and maintenance professionals who want to understand, maintain, and repair their on-demand water heating systems. Tankless water heaters provide endless hot water and energy savings, but without proper care, they can experience leaks, scale buildup, error codes, or performance issues.

Finalist for the 2022 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award Longlisted for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Nature) and the future of...

The water sprite with roots is personified as a friend who experiences many encounters, imbalances, fears, and hopes in his water cycle journey. Because he shares an affinity with any organic life form derived from carbon and hydrogen, he can communicate with other beings and express their stories from their realities. Most importantly, he talks the walk through his mission of discovering cyclical truths from the sun to water to nutrients to plants to animals to decomposing bacteria to respecting the biodiversity essential for all life.

Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley is a quietly powerful science fiction novella that explores the nature of companionship, memory, and human longing in the loneliness of deep space.

Sterilizing water is a big job. Solar electric (PV) powered UV water sterilizers are an effective way to sterilize your water from local polluted sources, even brackish water, with safety, reliability, and no fuel-costs. Water found in nature is full of pathogens which can cause disease and illness. Ultra-violet (UV) sterilizers kill 99.99% of all dangerous pathogens and render your water potable and safe to drink.

With strong dams and lodges, beavers create a home for many freshwater plants and animals. Dive into the lives of busy beavers and discover how they engineer their ecosystem to fit their needs.

Encephalitis almost ended Chris Maxwell's life. The scar tissue in his brain and life with epilepsy made him - and his family and friends - feel like the life they'd known changed suddenly and permanently. For Maxwell and the staggering number of people facing traumatic brain injuries, epilepsy, or other painful encounters, life is experienced through a different lens.

Would you like to build your own affordable hydroponic garden and enjoy fresh food in any season including winter? Are you tired of buying worn out and dirty produce and want to start providing fresher, healthier food to your family? Would you like to eat daily greens and veggies while saving money on your grocery bills? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this practical guide will provide you with everything you need to know about how to build, plant, and maintain your own hydroponic garden.

Corals are tiny sea creatures that make a big impact. By working together, corals build huge reefs where many plants and animals live. Get ready to uncover the secrets of these ocean ecosystem engineers.