Water Harvesting University!

Brad Lancaster leads us on a tour with of the epic water harvesting demonstration site on the University of Arizona's campus in Tucson, Arizona.
This video is part of the Rainwater Harvesting Online Course produced by Oregon State University:
pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog/...
It features Brad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond volumes 1 & 2:
www.harvestingrainwater.com
The site is the Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory at the University of Arizona's College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA):
capla.arizona.edu/facility/ot...
The designers of the site arte Ten Eyck Landscape Architects:
www.teneyckla.com/projects/ac...
For a further write up on aspects of the site, see case studies chapters 7 and 12 of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition.
Andrew Millison’s links:
www.andrewmillison.com/
permaculturedesign.oregonstat...
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[@enatp6448]

Doing great work! Life saving life generating work with low tech!!

[@gnub]

Oh, I just happened to visit that place while walking my dog!

[@HarvestingRainwater]

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[@ianvangiesen2523]

Great video! Lot of good information you have here. Does the reclaimed gray-water join the rainwater and condensate in the cistern, or is it pumped in elsewhere into the pond?

[@amillison]

@Ian Van Giesen That is a good question. I am not sure at exactly what point the AC condensate and the drinking fountain enter enter the system. It is possible that the condensate enters into the tank because the AC units are on the roof of the building. That's a question for Brad or contact the U of A Landscape Architecture school.

[@draunt7]

How do you spread that into the parking lot while maintaining the function of the lot?

[@b_uppy]

Your drone footage is distorted, why is that?
Great water reuse. Very thoughtful that the condensate was also reused.

[@amillison]

It's not actually drone footage. It's from Google Earth Studio. GES does not get good resolution close up. I could've cut that bit out, but I wanted to support Brad's point about the rooftops as mesas.

[@lanecostilow6959]

Wouldn't harvesting rainwater prevent the refilling of the Tucson aquifer?

[@stoverboo]

Just the opposite. If the rainwater isn't slowed down by harvesting, it hits the storm drains, and is funneled quickly to the ocean. By stopping or slowing the flow, we give the water a chance to sink into the ground.