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A NEW APPROACH TO WATER

Posted by geomater | 1 year 10 weeks ago

Despite the flurry of water news around the issue of Asheville's water system, the response to reviving the Water Action Group has been minimal - one person responded to the Doodle poll for a meeting.  I want to initiate an effort to make Asheville the first water-sustainable city, and would like to present it as a TA Water Action Group initiative.  I will load a PowerPoint presentation, comments by slide number, and a copy of a sign-on sheet I would like to circulate into the Documents section for the Water Action Group.  Please let me know what you think about adopting

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WATER ACTION GROUP MEETING

Posted by geomater | 1 year 8 weeks ago

The Water Action Group will give a presentation on A NEW APPROACH TO WATER: For a Water-Sustainable Asheville.  Asheville still receives enough rain to demonstrate a possible path to water sustainability.  Low-cost methods used for centuries in dry parts of the world but which are not well-known in WNC and other temperate areas offer to protect crops, gardens, and landscaping during drought conditions to maintain property values, and to provide new job opportunities, lower water costs, reduced waste, less strain on infrastructure, decreased energy costs, minim

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Work Days and Tours Scheduled for the LinkingWaters Project

Posted by geomater | 1 year 1 week ago

Sorry for the short notice, but if you can make it, we will be working at the LinkingWaters Project Demonstration Site, 124 Choctaw Street in Asheville, this Saturday, May 5, 9am to about noon.  We plan to remove invasive plants from the eastern end of the site and plant a cover crop, do maintenance on the diversion swale, place the topographic model into the display case, and perhaps start working to get rid of the Bernuda grass, so bring tools and glove

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Work Days and Tours Scheduled for the LinkingWaters Project

Posted by geomater | 1 year 1 week ago

 Sorry for the short notice, but if you can make it, we will be working at the LinkingWaters Project Demonstration Site, 124 Choctaw Street in Asheville, this Saturday, May 5, 9am to about noon.  We plan to remove invasive plants from the eastern end of the site and plant a cover crop, do maintenance on the diversion swale, place the topographic model into the display case, and perhaps start working to get rid of t

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A NEW APPROACH TO WATER: For a Water-Sustainable Asheville

Posted by geomater | 1 year 1 week ago

We have set up a schedule for giving the presentation "A New Approach to Water," the initiative in which we are partnering with WaterLinks, PLLC, for a water-sustainable Asheville.  Based on principles being developed at the LinkingWaters project, we are proposing simple methods practiced successfully in dry parts of the world for centuries.  Mark your calendars and come see!  Dates and places will be: 

6:30 pm-8:30 pm

Thurs, 5/17: Enka/Candler Library, 1404 Sand Hill Rd

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WATER SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

Posted by geomater | 5 days 1 hour ago

Transition Ashevile and WaterLinks, PLLC, will soon be launching our Water Sustainability Initiative.  You are receiving this message because you showed an interest in the Water Action Group in the past.  The Water Susta

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A NEW APPROACH TO WATER

Posted by geomater | 1 year 10 weeks ago

Attached are a copy of the presentation, comments, and a sign-on letter of support.

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