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Caring for Your Rain Garden - Spanish / Espanol
12,000 Rain Gardens
Spanish Version: Colorful and easy to read guidebook for maintaining your rain garden so that it is both beautiful and functioning effectively as green infrastructure.
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Natural Yard Care
King County
Great tips on how to manage your yard to reduce polluted stormwater runoff.
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Rain Harvesting at Home
Seattle Public Utilities
Helpful information from Seattle Public Utilities about how to harvest rain at home.
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The Problem with Bottled Water
River Keeper
Quick facts from River Keeper on the problems with bottled water through four lenses and what you can do: environment, economics, public health, and social justice.
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The Ideal Net Zero Water Building
Federal Energy Management Program
Great diagram of a net zero water building: Uses on-site alternative water sources to supply all of the building's water needs. All wastewater discharged from the building is treated on-site and returned to the original water source.
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Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle Public Utilities
Where does Seattle's drinking water come from? How much does it cost? How do we conserve water? Get the answers to these questions and more right here from the source.
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Natural Yard Care - Spanish / Espanol
King County
Spanish Version: Great tips on how to manage your yard to reduce polluted stormwater runoff.
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RainWise Program
Seattle Public Utilities
RainWise Program: Simple tips, guidelines and how to videos on planting trees, using compost and mulch, and building rain gardens and cisterns.
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The Story of Bottled Water - Video
The Story of Stuff
Americans buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows virtually free from the tap. How are we sold water in a bottle? Who profits from this?
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Rainwater Catchment System at the Bullitt Center
Bullitt Foundation
Denis Hayes, president of the Bullitt Foundation, describes the innovative rainwater harvesting system of the Bullitt Center.
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RainWise - Tip Sheets for Managing Stormwater at Home
Seattle
Seattle’s RainWise Program has a great set of one page tip-sheets on how to slow down, filter and infiltrate stormwater on your home property.
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Green-Duwamish Watershed Strategy
King County
King County and the City of Seattle have teamed up to coordinate the work already being done towards habitat restoration, salmon recovery, flood control, public health, economic development, and the Superfund cleanup of the Lower Duwamish.
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Seattle Goal - Manage 700 Million Gallons of Polluted Runoff
Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle has set a goal to manage 700 million gallons of polluted runoff per year with green stormwater infrastructure by 2025. Learn what you can do to help. Or transfer the ideas to your own city.
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How to Achieve Net Zero Water in a Building
US Department of Energy
Helpful diagram: An ideal net zero water building uses on-site alternative water sources to supply all of the building's water needs. All wastewater discharged from the building is treated on-site and returned to the original water source.
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Water.org
Water.org
Supports innovative, sustainable solutions to the global water crisis, giving women hope, children health and communities a future. Works with local partners to deliver innovative solutions for long-term success.
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