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Water Efficient Landscaping – City of Palo Alto’s New Video
Californians use copious amounts of highly treated potable water on thier landscape. Water used for irrigation is over half of the California residential water use every day. Studies on residential water use figures continue to propose a wide range, from 108 to 173 gallons per day. Given the spread, we can use […]
Creek Watch Watershed Survey and Phone App
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 […]
Rain Barrel Reflects Solar Eclipse
Yesterdays solar eclipse brought a whole new vision of a rain barrel to light!
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – 2012 Bay-Delta Science Conference: Ecosystem Reconciliation: Realities Facing the San Francisco Estuary
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 […]
Important Update – Rainwater Harvesting Code Draft
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: […]
Important Update – Graywater Code Revision Update
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: […]