What do you know about your own watershed? Do you know the name of the closest creek to you, whether above ground (daylighted) or running through an piped infrastructure system? Too often, we are unnaturally disconnected not only from our water sourece. OK, that’s a bit understandable, as in California, water can […]
Yesterdays solar eclipse brought a whole new vision of a rain barrel to light!
The San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary is one of the largest estuaries on the West Coast of North and South America. It encompasses roughly 1,600 square miles, and drains 40% of the state’s water. This means that 40% of all water that falls onto the state through snow and rain come through the […]
Here is the newest version of the Title 24, Part 5, Chapter 17 – Nonpotable Rainwater Catchment Systems. If you are interested in participating in the process (and please do!), the next step is a 45 day comment period. Comments on this pending version of the Rainwater Code should be addressed to: […]
Here is the newest version of the Title 24, Part 5, Chapter 16 – Residential and Commercial Graywater Systems. If you are interested in participating in the process (and please do!), you may send comments before April 29th. Comments on this pending version of the Rainwater Code should be addressed to: Contacts: […]
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Speaking of water use data in California, here’s a great video that lays out how much water we use in California and how. Once you know that information, the next step is to experiment with how you can make greater leaps and bounds into water conservation and reuse. Click on the title […]
Benchmarking is a powerful tool for providing perspective on how you, your company, or in this case, your state, are doing in comparison to another similar entity. Ryan Cahill and Jay Lund of the University of California at Davis took that tact in producing the research, Residential Water Conservation in Australia and […]
We’re starting to get the message. Water and energy DO mix, and what you do to manage one will impact the overall use of the other. As an example, according to the California Energy Commision’s 2005 Repoprt, California’s Water-Energy Relationship , water-related energy use consumes 19% of California’s electricity, 30% of natural […]
One of the issues in larger building complexes, particularly those that may not have extended gardens to beneift from graywater nutrients, is what to do with all the collected graywater. As we know, graywater can not be stored for over 24 hours without it turning the corner into becoming blackwater. That means, […]
