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I work with municipalites in the Southwest on water conservation programs, design and implementation. I also write for Water Efficiency Magazine, www.waterefficiency.net. I am currently looking for a city to work with this season, I have a great track record of realistic program elements that save millions of gallons of water- and energy; such as indoor/outdoor audit programs. If you know of cities that are currently trying to reinvent the wheel on water conservation and need some help, please let me know. Or, if you just have questions about ET based irrigation, water budgets, the EPA watersense program, etc, feel free to contact me. I may bore you to death, but I know a lot about the cutting edge programs across the country.
Laurence Budd, CLT,
CLIA Urban Water Conservation LLC
Water Conservation
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Does anyone have any resources (strategies, barriers, evaluations, messages) on conducting water conservation campaigns, particularly in the Great Lakes? I know that Toronto and other cities have had big and successful campaigns, but I am looking for examples where the messaging is not from the city, village or town government, but more of a grassroots effort. I have been through Doug's website and researched the examples provided there, and now I was looking for more examples or lessons learned.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Jennifer
Jennifer Browning
Executive Director
Biodiversity Project
4507 N. Ravenswood Suite 106
Chicago IL 60640
Phone: 773-496-4020
Cell: 773-592-5002
www.biodiversityproject.org
Look at efforts by watershed associations in the United States (e.g., http://www.ipswichriver.org/ ).
Also check out the "Greenscapes" website: http://www.greenscapes.org/
Marilyn McCrory
Water Resources Planner
Dept. of Conservation & Recreation
251 Causeway St., Suite 800
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 626-1423
Check out Denver Water's www.useonlywhatyouneed.org. It offers a different (and fun) approach to messaging a conservation campaign and gives customers the opportunity to participate at a grass roots level. It's definitely not your traditional conservation campaign..
Matt Bond
Community Relations
Denver Water
1600 W. 12th Ave
Denver, CO 80204-3412
303-628-6553
Hello Jennifer.
The Mott Foundation (www.mott.org) funds water conservation projects (through their Environment program) predominantly in the Great Lakes. They have a data base of organizations who have received funding for this type of work - if you search the database you can get additional information about specific projects and the organizations conducting the work.
Regards,
Nancy Webber
Coordinator/Program Development
Clean Nova Scotia
902.420.7931
[email protected]
www.clean.ns.ca
Hello again from LAurence Budd-
I guess I'm turning into a blog, or a blob. Topic: Water Offsets Some of you know about this concept-
A builder needs water for an apartment complex, New water rights are expensive. Consultants like me go to existing large landscape sites and use smart technologies and ET rates to bring the water use down to correct levels. I can actually free up several acre feet on the typical complex. [1 acre foot = 325,000gal.] Sometimes the city pitches in on the cost for upgrading, as it is a fraction of the cost of new water rights. Sometimes the builder covers the upgrades costs for the same reason. Everyone wins, especially riparian areas. As has been noted by California CUWCC and the EPA, landscape water runoff is the single largest waste of water in most western cities. If you would like to know more, write me.
Laurence Budd, CLT,
CLIA Urban Water Conservation
Water Efficiency Magazine