Development Planning Water Due Diligence
Issues that could make or break a project:
- Source-reliability -(waning or polluted aquifer, reduced snow melt, over allocated aqueduct, desalinization plant construction completion
- Source quality- chemicals or other toxins
- Treatment- fluoride, chlorine
- Rainfall drought due to removal of forests, or other corporate resource extraction
Issues Rural vs. Urban
- Grid vs. independent
Multi-unit Eco Community Common Area Water Issues
Issues to address in :CC&R’s
- Allocation per member
- Toxin & chemical bans
- Filter to protect overflow to watershed & aquifer
- Maintenance to monitor quality & quantity
- Collection
- Reclamation
- Storage
- Water source is destined for what use
- Above ground vs. underground
- Minimizing evaporation
- Building maintenance materials protocol to ensure purity of catchment surfaces
- Beauty, Smell, Member Water System Education
- Record keeping
- Transparency
- Emergency reserve (leak, fire, contamination)
- Consensus
Sustainable Eco Development Food Production From Managed Water
Life Security Issues:
- Need enough water to grow food to feed occupants
- Crops that need potable quality rain water i.e. (lettuce & strawberries)
- Crops that can receive subterranean irrigation
- Crops that can receive subterranean black water
- Green house vs. exterior
- Biocell pond lines to prevent percolation loss in the closed loop cycle
- Omnivore vs. vegan water per calorie
- High nutrient super foods
- Medicinal botanical gardens
- Mycology
- Minerals & Nutrient