Using biodegradable, sodium free soaps is a crucial component of a successful greywater system. Research your options before you start discharging your greywater onto your landscape!
Greywater Soaps
Desalination: an expensive solution for keeping green lawns in San Diego
Desalination provides the most expensive water supply in San Diego. By engendering a simple water conservation ethic, we can reduce our water needs in San Diego by over 20%, eliminating the need for this expensive water supply. Let’s rethink our water supply and our place in San Diego’s Water Cycle.
You don’t need to be a plumber to fix a leaking toilet.
Fixing indoor water leaks, and using high efficiency fixtures can reduce your water consumption by surprising amounts!
Mulch: The unsung hero of rainwater collection!
A brief primer on mulch selection, and why mulch matters.
Rainwater: Be an educated consumer, not a victim to FOMO
Rainwater catchment is an important consideration this fall. Make sure you are an educated consumer before spending your money. Cost is not the only consideration.
What’s more important? Water or Power?
Solar panels have become commonplace. The US government supports the use of solar power as a means to reduce our dependence on coal and other industrial generation of electricity. Why not do the same for…
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Water Ethics in San Diego
Taking into account our real water supply, how do we inhabit our southland in an ethical way?
Community Knowledge Sharing
I feel so privileged to be able to share what I have learned with my community. I spent a weekend last month working with 18 Eco-Apprentices from the Ecology Center on Watersheds, Water Harvesting Principles,…
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The Humble Side of Water Harvesting
Sometimes, in the process of putting in a rainwater tank or greywater system, we get stuck. That’s when we learn our biggest lessons.
Question of the week
This is a good opportunity to do some simple math that can help you understand how useful a greywater system can be for you and how changing your landscaping can help much more substantially! …
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