This website contains educational resources and materials to facilitate your understanding on integrated water management and efficiency methods for sustainable and ecological design of the built environment.
PARTIAL A LA CARTE MENU
- Everything Water Touches In The Built Environment
- Water Security in both quantity and quality.
- Awareness of your water use.
- Quantity of your water supply.
- The cost & effort of getting your water.
- How to do water budget supply and demand calculations.
- Irrigation capacity for food growing
- Understanding water harvesting, collection, up-cycling reclamation, and what filtered quality of water can be used for what specific tasks. Type of filters and what they can filter out of your water. Pollutants.
- Fire protection water reserves and requirements.
- Solutions for droughts. Emergency planning. Resilience before and after disasters. Solutions for storm drainage over flow. No contaminated run off.
- Optimize water shed and aquifer health.
- Erosion control. Post Fire Mud Slide Mitigations
- Hill Side Stabilization Terracing & Planned Tree Roots
- Current vs. proposed Codes & Policies regarding many aspects of water- Local, State, and Federal.
- Water storage vessels and agricultural ponds.
- Operation manuals.
- Maintaining your water system- in good operable repair, periodic water lab tests, snow issues and freeze mitigation, seismic mitigation, circulation & aeration, installation details.
- Water losses from leaks, faulty equipment, evaporation, percolation.
- Solar Voltaic pumped Hydroelectric systems.
- Statistics on water shortages.
- Electrical power required to run pumps.
- Embodied water in consumer products.
- Embodied carbon in water.
- conventional septic systems
- Hot potable water for drinking, cooking, bathing
- Safe proprietary sewage processing packages to reclaim waste water.
- Measure and monitor. High Tech smart monitoring devices.
- Living roofs and walls.
- Phases of water.
- Harvesting evaporation condensate.
- Distillers and solar distillers
- Types of pipe & distribution devices. Gutters And Leaf Guards
- Labeling Protocol For Pipes And Storage Tanks
- Efficient fixtures, appliances & equipment.
- Net Zero.
- Applications for Retrofit vs. New construction
- Paving And Roadway Design
- A La Carte solutions for Integrated Water Management. There is no one size fits all.
After you’ve reviewed this partial a la carte menu, I invite you to consult with me in collaboration on your project to detail and specify these features into your project.