I find this a fascinating and inspiring site. For me, it illustrates a shift to a much more alive and inclusive alternative to golf courses as a common green space around which vibrant…
June 17, 2022
I wish I had gone to this neighborhood school as a kid. Opportunities for playful learning through hands-on doing abound. At the core, it’s their garden and ecology program—integrated into both the curriculum…
June 15, 2022
This garden has a 14,700-gallon (66,000-liter) rainwater tank that collects less than a third of the runoff from the adjoining 28,800-square foot (2675-m2) warehouse roof. In a good year of rain, under the…
May 18, 2022
Built in 1960, the rainwater harvesting system provides the observatory (its 12 to 15 residents, 60 daytime staff, 6 to 8 astronomers, and up to 300 visitors a day (average of 50) with…
May 14, 2022
By reducing pumping of groundwater in the area, as Colorado River Water imported via the CAP canal is now being used instead of pumped groundwater for many area homes, mines, and farm fields;…
There once were many prehistoric and historic irrigation canals or acequias in the Tucson Basin that would use gravity to more widely distribute perennially and ephemerally flowing water from rivers such as the…
May 13, 2022
Tucson is home to many superfund sites where pollutants from local landfills, businesses, and industry have migrated down (or even been injected directly into) to our aquifer and contaminated our groundwater. A superfund…
In 2019, the Santa Cruz River Heritage Project began pumping highly treated “waste” (sewer) water from Tucson’s Agua Nueva Wastewater Reclamation Facility to a point south of downtown Tucson and West Star Pass…
I feel this project marked a shift, when the city and county began to view stormwater as a potential resource (that could be utilized while also controlling flooding), as opposed to a water…
Wonderfully effective examples of water harvesting in the rural setting, including harvesting water off dirt roads and utilizing induced meandering to stop down-cutting erosion of arroyos and help beneficially reconnect waterways with their…