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Water & Sanitation
Fire Protection in Rural Areas: Dry Hydrants for Ponds
AEX-422-98 (online)
Water Sources for Fire Protection in Small Communities
AEX-424-01
7 Tips to Search for Water
(circa 1958 article)
Ancient Water Technologies
Basic Water Information
(article)
Emergency Water Supply
Experiences and Opportunities for Promoting Small-Scale/Micro Irrigation and Rainwater Harvesting
House drainage and water service in cities, villages, and rural neighborhoods.
With incidental consideration of causes affecting the healthfulness of dwellings (1878)
Interpreting Drinking Water Test Results-What do the Numbers Mean?
Some Little Known Facts about the Typical Garden Watering Can
(I searched the 3 sites listed and could not find this article, it is not copyrighted and is well worth the read, so here it is)
Water for Life
Water Quality-Your Private Well: What Do The Results Mean?
Water Use Planning Guide (livestock needs, etc)
AEX-420-94 (online)
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water & Sanitation Target-The Urban & Rural Challenge of the Decade
2004
Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting RWH System Sizing Calculator Texas
(do a search on
"
RainWaterHarvesting_RWHSystemSizingCalculatorTexas
", select the "
www.twdb.state.tx.us/.../doc/TWDB_Rainwater_Calculator_v2.0.xls
" link and the spreadsheet will download)
A Consumer's Guide: Heat Your Water with the Sun
Solar Water Heater Principles
(article)
Add a Pond to Your Property
(article)
Basics of an Off Grid Micro Hydro Installation
(article)
Irrigation Siphon Tubes
(article)
Principles of Irrigation Engineering:
Arid Lands, Water Supply, Storage Works, Dams, Canals, Water Rights and Products (1913)
Hand and Power Pumps for All Uses
; cistern and force pumps, well pumps and cylinders, spray pumps and nozzles, hydralic rams and pneumatic water systems, rotary, centrifugal and power deep well pumps, triplex power pumps, air compressors and pumps for special duties (1916)
Solar Water Pumping
—A sensible, reliable alternative
Understand the Basics of Centrifugal Pump Operation
Avoiding Stream Pollution from Animal Manure
AEX-708-91
(online)
Drinking Water Still Construction
(don't know where I got this and can't find it online, so here it is)
Emergency Drinking Water Disinfection Procedures
How you can have Clean Drinking Water in an Emergency
Making a Homemade Berky Water Filter
Monolihic Water Filter Operating Instructions
(don't where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
Monolithic Specifications
(don't where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
Solar Stills, Understanding
(article)
Water Filtration and Purification Methods (do a search on "
Water Filtration and Purification Methods Handout - Prepper Link
",
select the "
prepperlink.com/index.../1-document-downloads?...water-purification
" link and document will download)
DIY Concrete Water Tank Plan
(can't find this online so here it is)
Roof and Cistern Calculations
for a rain water harvesting system (don't know where I got this, can't find this online and see no copyright so here it is)
Water Storage Container FAQ
(article)
A Guide for Private Domestic Well Owners
Guide to Domestic Water Wells
(article)
Hand-Dug Wells-
Choice of Technology and Construction Manual (54p)
How to Drill Your Own Water Well
How Water Wells are Drilled
Important Facts about Water Well Construction
(2003)
Managing Your Water Well in Times of Water Shortage
(1999)
Rudimentary treatise on Well-Digging, Boring and Pump-work
1868
Simple and Low Cost Manual Water Well Drilling
The Practice of Well Test Interpretation: Golden Rules
Water Well Design and Construction
Water Well Drilling for the Prospective Well Owner
Well Digging
in Kassala:
The Hand Powered Percussion Drill
Practical Action
Well Owner's Handbook A Consumer's Guide to Water Wells in Minnesota
Wells Construction: Hand Dug and Hand Drilled
(119 p)
A Design Manual for Water Wheels
(article)
Sewage Treatment and Disposal Understanding
(article)
Build Your Own Waterless Composting Toilet
Calculating Loading Rates for Design of Small Flow Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Hydraulic vs. Organic Loading
AEX-756
Emergency Sanitation At Home
H-I 1958 (don't know where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
Field Hygiene and Sanitation
FM 21-10 MCRP 4-11.1D
Health on the Farm: a Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
(1911 from the Young Farmer's Practical Library)
Land Application of Waste-Spreading and Injection
AEX-707-91
Managing Septic Tank-Sand Bioreactor Systems
AEX-754-01
Managing Septic Tank-Soil Absorption Systems
AEX-752-00 (online)
Rural Hygiene
(The Rural Science Series 1911)
Rural Hygiene:
a hand-book of sanitation designed for the use of students in the agricultural schools and colleges, and for the residents of the rural districts of the United States (1909)
Septic System Maintenance
AEX-740-01
Septic System Tips: DOs and DONTs
Septic Tank-Soil Absorption Systems
AEX-743-93
(online)
Slow Sand Filtration
1974
Slow Sand Filtration Water Treatment Plants
(Design, Operation, Maintenance) Practical Action
The Human Manure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
3rd Edition
Toilets, Running Water, Tree Planting and Solar Cookers for Rural Qinghai Communities
(Canada Fund and Friendship Charity Association)
Water Sanitation and Hygiene in Emergencies
Water-Sanitary Control and Surveillance of Field Water Supplies
TB MED 577 NAVMED P-5010-10 AFMAN48-138
Hydraulic Tables,
coefficients & formulae, for finding the discharge of water from orifices, notches, weirs, pipes & rivers (1860)
A Low-Cost Water Measuring Device
Barn & Garden Plumbing System
Clean Water And How To Get It On The Farm
Homeowner's Guide to Household Water Conservation
How to Reduce Water by 50 to 75%
an eBook by InvisibleGardener.com (can't find this online and don't see a copyright so here it is)
Interpreting Drinking Water Test Results
G3558-4
Layman's Guide Book How to Develop a Small-Hydro Site
Nitrate in Drinking Water
The Science of Water
(covers the Contaiminants, the Treatments & Practical Solutions, don't know where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
Water Emergency Mass Water Fixed Supply
TB MED 576 1982 (Sanitary Control and Surveillance of Water Supplies at Fixed Installations)
Water Supply and Treatment for Individual and Small Community Systems,
Understanding (article)
Well and Spring Protection
(1922)
Introduction to Greywater Management Fact Sheet
2008 2 pgs
Rain Water Harvesting
Practical Action
Rainwater Harvesting Calculator
(online)
Rainwater Harvesting Manual
3rd edition
Rainwater Harvesting: Rain Barrel Introduction
Runoff Rainwater Harvesting
Water from Small Dams: A handbook
for technicians and farmers and others on site investigations, designs, cost estimates, construction and maintenance of small earth dams
Solar Water Heaters, Understanding
(article)
Barley Straw Blanketweed Control & Pond Treatment
(article)
Layout and Lining of Canals
Centrigugal Pump: Parallel and Series Operation
(I can'ts seem to find this online since no author or publisher, yet alone copyright is in this document - here it is)
Installation of Well Pumps
(1995)
Pumps Selection Handbook
(don't know where I got this and can't find it online, so here it is)
6 Simple Pumps A Construction Guide
(article, in plain text format to copy and paste into Notepad or Word, etc.)
Things that Work! The Folk Ram Pump
Water Supply Pumping Systems
TM-5-813-9
Wind Energy for Water Pumping, Understanding
(article)
Building a Home Distillation Apparatus
Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
(EPA) 4 pgs
Emergency Drinking Water Treatment
(don't know where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
In the Wake:
A collective manual-in-progress for outliving civilization Tools for Gridcrash (archive web site, not updated. The site is a collection of interviews, analysis, and how-tos about peak oil, climate change, collapse, and related subjects.)
Monolithic Water Filtration
Woodpile Report Nov 10 2009 (article)
Solar Distillation Water Purification
Treating and Storing Water for Emergency Use
Water Purification
(I orginally got this from TheIdeaDoor.com, but can no longer find it, it is not copyrighted so here it is)
Cistern Sizing Calculator
(online)
Ferrocement Water Tanks
Make an Open Tank Water Tower
(don't know where I got this so here it is)
Storing Water Barrels
(complements Water Barrel Rack (DIY)
Water Barrel Rack
(DIY)
for Storing Water Barrels
Best Management Practices for Private Water Systems
(Pennsylvania)
How to Design and Build a Water System for Your Backwoods Home
How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off
(article)
Important FAQs on Water Well Construction
(1995)
Multiservice Procedures for Well-Drilling Operations
FM 5-484 NAVFAC P-1065 AFMAN 32-1071
Rudimentary treatise on Well-Digging, Boring and Pump-work:
with illustrations
(1851)
Understanding Groundwater & Wells in Manual Drilling
Water Well Drilling for the Prospective Well Owner
(2000)
Water Well Drilling for the Prospective Well Owner
(Individual, Domestic Use) 2007
Well Digging: A Guide to the Construction and Protection of Hand Dug Wells
(55p)
Well Construction: Hand Dug and Hand Drilled
Peace Corps 1980 (article)
What Every Realtor Should Know About Private Drinking Water Wells
A Starter's Guide for Community Based Wastewater Solutions
June 2005 Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy (all the online links to this download timeout, I see no copyright, so here it is)
Composting Toilets For Off Grid Homes
(article)
Ecological Sanitation, A Concept
Estimating Manure Production, Storage Size and Land Application Area
AEX-715-08
Field Sanitation in Contingency Operations
(US Army)
Health and Sanitation: Sanitary Latrines
(online Detailed illustrated guide)
How To Build a Septic System
(online)
Maintaining Your Septic System: A Guide For Homeowners
Pipeline Fall 2004 Vol 15 No 4
Managing Septic Tank-Mound Systems
AEX-753-01
(online)
Manure to Energy Through Anaerobic Digestion
AEX-653.1-11
Recycling Organic Waste
Practical Action
Sand Size Analysis for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
AEX-757-08
Sanitation and Cleanliness for a Healthy Environment
Sanitation Field Hygiene and Sanitation
FM 21-10 MCRP 4-11.1D 2000
Septic Systems: How They Work and How to Keep Them Working
Sewage-Fed Aquaculture: A Biological Method of Waste Water Treatment
(The Kolkata model) (don't know where I got this so here it is)
The Use of Reed Beds for the Treatment of Sewage & Wastewater from Domestic Households
(do a search on "
The Use of Reed Beds for the Treatment of Sewage & Wastewater from Domestic Households
", select the "
www.lismore.nsw.gov.au/page.asp?f=RES-IRA-28-72-12
" link and it will download)
Why Do Septic Systems Malfunction?
AEX-741-00 (online)
Food and Water Safety During Hurricanes, Floods and Power Outages
Running Water, Well Drilling & Sanitation Series of publications
(1999) Links to Downloads (Covers the selection of a well site, how to dig or drill a well, maintain it, use it for irrigation and much, much more.)
Finding Your Watershed
(article)
Hot Water Simply
(article)
How to Find Water and How to Make Water Safe to Drink
(article)
Hydrogen Sulfide in Drinking Water
AEX-319-97 (online)
Illustrated Handbook
of James Leffel's on
Improved Double Turbine Water Wheel
for 1885 and 1886
Multi-use Ponds for the Smallholder
(article)
The Farm Water Supply and Sewage Disposal
(1918)
Water Conservation
(don't know where I got this nice 5 pg document with no politics, so here it is)
Water FAQ
1997 (don't know where I got this document, so here it is)
Water Supply General Considerations,
Understanding (article)
Water Testing
AEX-314-93
(online)
Waterborne Illness
AEX-770-06
Building Small Scale Water Harvesting Dams
Introduction to Greywater Management
2004 25 pgs
Rainwater Harvesting Components Illustration
Rainwater Catchment and Reuse System: Capture, Filter, Reuse
Safe use of Household Graywater
(this is no longer online to download, so here it is)
Solar Hot Water - NREL Learning
(do a search on "
Nrel Learning - Solar Hot Water - SurvivalRing
", select the "
www.survivalring.org/.../index.php?...NREL_%20LEARNING%20-%20
" link and document will download)
Electricity for the Farm:
Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the
Water Wheel
or farm engine (1915)
Handbook on Solar Water Pumping
Home-made Hydraulic Ram Pump Plans
Hydraulic Ram
(article)
Pumping Water For Irrigation Using Solar Energy
Ram Pumps
Practical Action
Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping
Practical Action
Solar Water Pumps, Understanding
(article)
Water Supply Pumping Systems
UFC 3-230-13A TM-5-813-9
A Guide to Drinking Water Treatment Technologies for Household Use
Cheap Water Bucket Filter
(don't know where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
Emergency Disinfection of Water Supplies
AEX-317-91 (online)
How to Use Iodine to Sterilize Water
(copy this text page into Notepad or Word)
In the Wake
A collective manual-in-progress for outliving civilization Tools for Gridcrash
Excerpt Booklet 1
(DIY Water Filtration, Well Digging, Heating, Etc)
Sanitizing Stored Water Supplies
Simple Methods for the Treatment of Drinking Water
GTZ 1985 78 p
Solar Distillation–
Meeting Small Scale Water Demands 1970
Water Storage & Purification
Whole House Water Filters
(article)
A Practical Guide to Sand Dam Implementation
(Water supply through local structures)
How to Store Water:
How to Clean, Prepare and Fill a Water Barrel (article)
Potable Water Storage, Understanding
(article)
Water Storage and Treatment of Cisterns
(article; Cisterns for family use: tank, catchment area, filter, and pump.)
Disinfecting a Domestic Well with Shock Chlorination
How to Dig and Take Care of Wells
(can't find this online so here it is)
How to keep your Water Well "Well"
Instruction Manual for Hand Dug Well Equipment
(Covering well auger survey, well digging, dewatering and desludging kits)
What You Should Know About Water Well Construction
Selection of Well Construction Methods
Shock Chlorination of Wells and Springs
AEX-318-91
(online)
The Hand Dug Well
ST 1.5
Water Well Design and Construction
FWQP 11.3 (6p)
Water Well Drilling for the Prospective Well Owner
(Montana)
Water Well Manual:
A Pratical Guide for Locating and Constructing Wells for Individual and Small Community Water Supplies
Well-boring for Water, Brine and Oil; a manual of current practice
(1921)
Wells Construction: Hand Dug and Hand Drilled
(197 p)
A Design Manual for Water Wheels
(article)
Agricultural Waste Recycling Understanding
(article)
Colonial and Camp Sanitation
(1903)
Compost Toilets
Composting Privy
(article)
Controlling Tree Roots in Sewer Lines With Copper Sulfate
CR-6428 0592
Emergency Sanitation: How to Make a Portable Toilet
(article)
Fecal-Oral Pathogens in Water
AEX-769-06
Handbook for Managing Onsite and Clustered
(Decentralized)
Wastewater Treatment Systems
Healthy Villages:
a guide for communities and community health workers (sanitation & health 2002)
Managing Livestock Waste Facilities: Controlling Crystal Formation in Recycle Flush Systems
AEX-709-92
(online)
Out Houses are In Houses
(article)
Pour-flush Latrine
(article)
Reuse of Feaces and Urine from Ecological Sanitation
Practical Action
Sanitation at the Community Level, Understanding
(article)
Sanitation Preparedness
(article)
Sanitation-Field Waste Management
TB
MED 593 2006
Septic Tank Maintenance
Septic Tank-Mound System
AEX-744 (online)
Soil Evaluation for Home Septic Systems
AEX-742-04
Suggestions on Rural Hygiene : relating principally to the house and its surroundings :
for local boards of health, local authorities, and householders (1879)
Types of Toilet and Their Suitability
Unit Field Sanitation Team
FM 4-25.12 FM 21-10-1
Unsewered Toilets
(this no longer appears to be online, however it is a Canadian government document so here it is)
Water & Sanitation Preparedness