
Designing a Net Zero Water Home or School
Join Allan Montpellier, from PAE Engineering, in a fascinating exploration on how we can design for net zero water. Wednesday, November 6, 4:00-5:30 | ZOOM


Time & Location
Nov 06, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
ZOOM
About the Event
A net zero water future is possible. It means that we learn how to reconnect with nature's water cycle even as we interrupt it with our buildings, industries, farms, and personal needs, to use what we receive in a 12-month period, our “rainwater budget,” and give it back to nature as clean as we got it. How did the Bullitt Center, a six story office space in Seattle become a net zero water building? How does Valley View Middle School in Snohomish harvest the rainwater on its rooftop to flush its toilets and irrigate its campus? How did the tiny island nation of Singapore leap from a developing country to the world’s most advanced water cycling society, capturing all of its rainwater, recycling all of its wastewater, and desalinating the seawater that surrounds it? Can we engineer our homes, apartments, and schools to achieve net zero water so that over…