Wednesday, February 25, 2009
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Albuquerque Academy
6400 Wyoming Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87109
Contact – Barbara Gilbert gilbertb@aa.edu or Karen Beamish kbeamish@aa.edu
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance – The Integrated Harvest of Water, Sun, and Community
Brad Lancaster will present on how to turn water scarcity into water abundance with eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple effective strategies. The principles 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. 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. Stormwater harvesting directs street runoff into street-side water-harvesting earthworks to passively irrigate shading street trees. The three 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, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.