Archive for “rainwater harvesting” Tag

Desert Landscape Design Ideas Now Available from Phoenix

February 21, 2024

Your journey to creating or maintaining a water-wise landscape is now even easier thanks to the resources provided by the city of Phoenix Water Services Department. Phoenix Water recently collaborated with design experts from Arizona State University to produce free, easy-to-use desert landscape, or xeriscape, design guides that anyone can download. The Desert Landscapes in Your Front Yard guides were …

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Water – Plant It Wisely: Everything You Need for Spring Planting!

February 12, 2024

This spring, learn how beautiful water conservation can be.  Spring is in the air; in the sweetness of the citrus buds, in the warmth against your skin, and in the vibrant colors of blooming shrubs. Time to put your garden gloves and shovel to work and get your landscaping on par with the rest of Mother Nature. Water – Plant …

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Chandler – Build your own Basin

January 17, 2024

Build your own rainwater harvesting basin in this free hands-on workshop! This workshop teaches you how to build swales in your landscape and install new plants to reduce the cost of watering your landscape while contributing to local groundwater. All tools and supplies are provided. Please wear closed-toe shoes, hats, and sunscreen. Register here!

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Avondale – Rainwater Harvesting

January 9, 2024

Led by water conservation professionals, this workshop will guide you through the best practices of maximizing the use of rainwater on your home’s property. Register here

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Prepare for Monsoon Season with These 5 Landscape Tips

June 12, 2023

Here in Arizona, the monsoon season officially runs from June 15 to September 30,  but summer storms often don’t move in until July. When it does hit, it’s time to lower the shade umbrellas and batten down the hatches. Powerful storms can roll in bringing downpours, wind, hail, dust, microbursts, haboobs … you get the idea. While we love them–but …

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Trees Are Cool – Even During a Drought!

April 28, 2023

Trees Offer Climate Change Solutions On February 7, 2023, Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona, announced the ‘Trees Are Cool’ initiative to increase shade across the city, lower the urban heat island effect in neighborhoods, and help cool our communities during the hot summer months. “Trees Are Cool” challenges residents and businesses to help increase the City’s tree canopy coverage …

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Surprise – Water Harvesting Landscape Design

March 15, 2023

Learn to assess your yard based on integrated design principles and find ways you can shape your landscape to passively harvest rainwater on site.

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Our 5 Best Landscape Water-Saving Tips for Fall

September 21, 2021

Did you know that up to 70 percent of water is used outdoors? Hard to believe, but it’s true. That’s why focusing on your landscape is one of the best and easiest ways to save water and reduce your water bill. In the southwest, as the searing temps of summer start to subside, fall is a particularly good time to …

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Hydrate Surprise – Hydrate Your Food

September 16, 2020

Watershed Management Group wants to hydrate your neighborhood with our virtual landscape learning series! “Hydrate” is WMG’s free, 5-part, water harvesting project series offered throughout the Valley. Join us for Hydrate Surprise: Hydrate Your Food! Learn how to use rain tanks to support your vegetable garden. Attend the full series to build a comprehensive site plan for your landscape. Workshops …

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Hydrate Surprise – Hydrate Your Yard

Watershed Management Group wants to hydrate your neighborhood with our virtual landscape learning series! “Hydrate” is WMG’s free, 5-part, water harvesting project series offered throughout the Valley. Join us for Hydrate Surprise: Hydrate Your Yard! Learn how to harvest the rain with only a shovel. Attend the full series to build a comprehensive site plan for your landscape. Workshops are …

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Eight Ways to Make Your Home More Sustainable

December 11, 2019

We asked an Arizona energy and building expert – John Wesley Miller of Tucson – to suggest eight sensible ideas for how to make your home more sustainable. As an award-winning builder and solar pioneer, Miller has been a national leader in energy conservation and green building ideas. He also champions the concept of “universal accessibility” – building homes that …

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Scottsdale’s free landscape workshop: Plant something and nourish it with rainwater harvesting

July 31, 2019

An expert from Watershed Management Group will teach you how to use passive rainwater harvesting to create a series of berms, basins, and swales that will direct rainwater to beneficial use for plants while reducing flooding and erosion in your yard. Learn how these practices will slow the flow of the water, spread it across the areas where it’s needed, …

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