Day 4 Course Outline - Water in the Landscape

Water for energy and transportation

• “anomaly” of water
• density effects, surface tension
• “living water”, vortices, flowforms
• Victor Schauberger and implosion power

Permaculture design defined - continued

• material, strategic and conceptual components
• Design Cycle – BREDIM or other memorable made-up words
• Design Cycle – REAP MORE-by Frazer How
• Design Tools- Relative Permanence

Hydraulics and pneumatics

• ram pumps, water wheels, trompe compressors

Lunch

Water in the Landscape

• water for irrigation and settlements - sources, sinks & stores
• the water cycle and Kravcik’s work
• strategies for water harvesting and flood control
• swales- keyline planning and dam sites
• reservoir and dam construction
• sandpit demonstration
• siting of buildings and terracing

Climate and landscape effects

• landscape profiles
• orographic rain
• valley circulation

Drylands

• salting and fossil water
• swales, limonia and boomerangs
• dryland cultivation and irrigation strategies