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LEED Certification and Water Harvesting
Building standards, such as LEED, can drive developers, planners, architects and home builders towards a more responsible and ethical management of California’s limited water supplies. (Please see “Is Our Water Future an Inconvenient Truth” if you are in doubt about our water crisis). Wholly H2O is pushing for greater valuation of water […]
Is Our Water Future An Inconvenient Truth?
When I started working at Flex Your Power early in 2006, California’s one-time energy efficiency campaign funded through the public goods charge on our utility bills, no one was really that interested in energy efficiency. Even CFL lightbulbs seemed like a radical and unecessary change to most people. We could barely give […]
Update on the California Residential and Commercial Graywater Code Rewrite
Here is the long delayed update on the State of California’s residential and commercial graywater code. The new code is to become California State Plumbing Code Chapter 16, being rewritten to to replace the 2009 Chapter 16, Part A code. This code is being developed by the State of California’s Department of […]
Shaped By Water: Los Altos History Museum Exhibit Provides Provocative Educational Opportunity
I am always happy to see the theme of water taken up by artists. The exhibit, Shaped by Water, provides a stunning visual display of California’s water history, present and future, seen through the lens of art, educational materials and a lot of plastic – plastic refuse gathered from oceans and rivers […]
International Stormwater BMP Database reaches the 500-BMP Milestone
Here at Wholly H2O, we are fanatics about tying water reuse practices to data. The problem is, when it comes to rainwater and graywater, there has been very little focus or funding available to create the vital data needed to make good management choices. Fortunately, at least when it comes to rainwater, […]
California Water: Is Anyone Listening?
Tap, tap, tap….Is this thing on? The more that individuals, businesses, institutions, industries and farmers get into the mode of smart and appropriate water conservation practices, the less stress there will be on our water supplies. Wholly H2O is in the business of promoting onsite water management – meaning incporporating rainwater and […]