Rainwater Harvesting – How to Manage It in Homes, Lots, and Properties
Every time it rains, the water begins its journey through the landscape. Some of it is absorbed by vegetation, some seeps into the ground, some is temporarily stored, and some continues on its way to lower-lying areas, watercourses, aquifers, and finally the sea. However, the way we have transformed the land has disrupted many of […]
Hydrological Consulting in Las Majadillas
Cortijo Las Majadillas, a farm with a regenerative vision 600 hectares.A farmhouse.Hundreds of cork oak trees.60 cows of various breeds.5 horses.2 streams, 1 river, 2 springs.One small reservoir and one larger one.About 1,000 mm of annual rainfall.Several geological faults.Three generations of livestock management.Constant hunting activity.Gully erosion, waterlogged areas, and parched areas.Livestock mortality due to drought.Insufficient […]
Hydrological landscape design
WATER IS LIFE The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the relationship between the availability of available resources and the number of living organisms that can take advantage of them. Although the evaluation of this “Carrying Capacity” is considered “multifactorial”, at the base of every food chain and of every resource availability is… Water. The […]
Typha latifolia, purifier par excellence
What aquatic plants do we use in the aquatic planter (the secondary treatment) of our SIRAR? Today we see Typha Latifolia or broadleaf cattail. Typha latifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows in wetlands and shallow waters. It is native to North and South America, Eurasia and Africa, and has a distinctive cylindrical, sausage-shaped […]
Gifts for World WATER Day
Water comes from the sky, from the ground…or by truck. March 22nd is World WATER Day. This same week, the UN is also meeting in New York to discuss the topic, in order to accelerate the Water Agenda and be able to cover SDG6. In 2022 we have experienced the hottest summer since 1950 according […]
#SIRAR Workshop at Can Cel
This workshop on domestic wastewater will be held in person at our home, Can Cel, in the Alt Maresme region of the province of Barcelona. During the workshop, which begins at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m., we will take a closer look at the element of Water, which is so essential to life […]
Supporting the Transition
Supporting the Transition At La Casa Integral, we are passionate about projects that seek to create new models for how we live in this world. La Fàbrica de la Transició is one of them. For several weeks now, we have been working with this housing cooperative—comprising about 20 families—to apply Regenerative Solutions in the redesign […]
A #SIRAR for a Municipal Shelter
Traveling around the peninsula again… This time we traveled to Extremadura to design and build a Comprehensive Wastewater Reuse System—a #SIRAR—for a municipal shelter. The SIRAR will be able to manage wastewater for about 30 people, providing a wide variety of ecosystem services such as irrigation for productive areas, forest growth, shade (which is so […]
Online Workshop: DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
In response to requests from our cross-border audience following the #SABERES Seminar—co-created with the Sembrares team for International Permaculture Day this past May—and following the video our colleague Sergi Caballero from Mas Les Vinyes made for us , we are launching this online workshop: DESIGN AND SIZE YOUR COMPREHENSIVE WASTEWATER REUSE SYSTEM (#SIRAR) We offer: […]
A SIRAR in Vallalta
A Case Study: Wastewater Reuse in Vallalta Esther, Félix, and Biel live in a beautiful stone-and-wood house on the slopes of Montnegre. The soil is granitic sandstone, and their water supply comes from a well that isn’t very abundant. They’d been dealing with a wastewater problem for years but hadn’t been able to find a […]