Whole Water Systems principals are pioneers in sustainable onsite water treatment and have been designing biological treatment systems including constructed wetlands for more than twenty years. Sustainable development today is grappling with how to treat and reuse water in projects. LEED gives credits for water treatment and reuse; at the forefront of green design, the Living Building Challenge mandates it. Conventional treatment technology is centralized, expensive, energy intensive and difficult to translate onsite to buildings or developments. Whole Water will cover in this presentation proven onsite water treatment solutions that offer benefits of being attractive, inexpensive, little-to-no energy, flexible, robust and low maintenance – including pictures of residential and commercial constructed wetlands that are attractive amenities to the landscaping. (Also included will be a brief digression with pictures on European natural swimming pool technology which uses constructed wetlands instead of chlorine.) Come learn about alternatives to centralized water treatment systems – alternatives that are sustainable and distributed, closing the loop by making treated water and nutrients available for local reuse. 

Who should attend? Architects (CE credits), developers, land planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, permaculturists, motivated general public. 

Presenters:

Morgan Brown, LEED AP, BS electrical engineering, NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer,

President, Whole Water Systems, www.wholewater.com

David Venhuizen, P.E., MS civil engineering, BS biology

Decentralize water treatment pioneer with 25 years design experience

Principal Engineer, Whole Water Systems

Continuing Ed Credits, $5 members/$20 non-members

Registration at http://www.aiaaustin.org/cde.cfm?event=283496

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