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Mind Map 1 - Catching, Conserving and Using Water, Benefits - Coggle…

- - - - Benefits
        
        Holds more moisture
        
        Reduces water evaporation as water held in soil doesn't evaporate easily
        
        Adds fertility
        
        Stores nutrients
        
        Boosts soil life
        
        Fluffs soil
        
        Aerated soil helps avoid drowning the plants roots
        
        Sequesters carbon
    - - Important because the world has a very small quantity of fresh water readily available to be used
        
        Most rainwater is redirected in storm drains
        
        Water directed into municipal water systems which then need to be treated before being released
        
        Which is costly to municipalities
        
        Can create isssues like storm water overflows in the city water treatment system which leads to untreated water being released back into nature
  - - - Benefits
        
        Catches water
        
        Directs water where needed
        
        Helps plants survive wet and dry periods
        
        builds Humus
        
        adds visual interest
    - - Skinny pond that helps catch, redirect and infiltrate water into soil
        
        Builds humus, diversity and creates a microclimate
        
        Filled with mulch
        
        More rainfall or steeper hill = closer swales
        
        Less rainfal or flat surfaces = swales far appart
      - Must be level
  - - - Desert plants
        
        Plants adapted to low rain conditions
      - Méditerranean plants
        
        Can find local plants adapted to this description
        
        Local plants will also be more adapted to local climate
        
        Plants whose water use changes seasonally
    - - Benefits
        
        Conserves water
        
        Less labor for watering
        
        Survive drought
  - - - Shades soil
      - Increases biodiversity
      - Increases yields
    - - Follow the fores to stack heights of plants
        
        Small fast growing plants grow fist before trees filll out
        
        Then shrubs and small trees
        
        Lastly big trees will filll out and create shade thus creating shade and conserving moisture for more developped understory plants
  - - - Benefits
        
        Slows evaporation
        
        keeps plant roots cool
        
        Cools soil
        
        Smothers weeds
        
        Arthropod and microbe habitat
        
        Prevents soil erosion and promotes good soil structure
- - - - plants & soil organisms will accept graywater and consume solids and dissolved content in it as food
        
        Decomposers like microbes will process the mixture of graywater and plants will consume the nutrients
        
        Detritus cycle
        
        Ecological gardening attempts to restore it
        
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        Deep mulches
        
        Composting
        
        Avoiding toxic spray
        
        incorporing graywater
        
        Result
        
        clean water and fertilizer for living things in the garden
        
        leads to circle's connections in the garden
    - - Reduce pollution and strain on sewage and septic systems
      - Help to build a resilient, life-enhancing cycle into ecological garden
      - Creates local cycle & use less energy and infrastructure
      - Act clean water and fertilizer
    - - Produce no waste
  - - - Bishops farm uses pond to catch melted snow flowing down hill (personal connection)
      - Every 1000 square feet of roof area will catch about 625 gallons of water
  - - - Save water billing
    - - Enough to irrigate gardens during dry periods
      - Boost resilience against water shortage
  - - - e.g.:process waste and liquid
    - - Basin in a sink
        
        When the sink is full, empty it into mulched garden bed
        
        mulch absorbed graywater and soil life process it
      - "Drain to mulch basin" system
        
        Drain from the shower or washing machine that is isolated from toilet wastes
        
        this drain is after connecting to another to carry graywater out of the house
        
        graywater is then directed in mulched swale or basins
        
        Can also be directed in a drum to temporarily hold it
      - Penny Livingston system
        
        Four shimmering ponds with water plants, fish, ducks
        
        Graywater first flow in a little marsh that removes contaminants of it and converts them in vegetation
        
        Then, clean water passes through three small ponds and finish in the ducks ponds
      - Some cities in the U.S copied nature buy building artificial wetland to process municipal wastewaster