Venue: Board of Supervisors’ Chambers
Address: 5100 Bullion Street, Mariposa CA 95338
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Time: 1:30 – 3 pm

Cost: Donations at the door
Talk: Water Harvesting to Turn Drains into Sponges and Water Scarcity into Abundance
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance
This inspiring power point presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. They empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community. Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls, using cisterns and tanks, or earthworks and raingardens. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing-machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. In an integrated system, all these strategies work hand in hand, and can reduce our water consumption by 30 to 50%! You’ll see examples enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, harvesting urban drool, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
For further information: call 966-1206 or send an email to desertbounty@hotmail.com
Hosted by: An alliance of Sierra Foothills groups, such as the Upper Merced River Watershed Council, Mariposa County Master Gardeners, Yosemite Area Audubon Society and California Native Plant Society, along with area residents and businesses.