Designing for Water Conservation

March 18, 2009
4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

Resource Materials

American Planning Association. Policy Guide on Water Resource Management. April 15, 2002. www.planning.org/policy/guides/adopted/waterresources.htm.

Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making. 2004. Look for the option to read the full text online. http://dels.nas.edu/wstb/reportDetail.php?link_id=1696&session_id=9ob824guejt0lrarrucg91l934.

Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution, National Research Council. Urban Stormwater Management in the United States. 2008. Look for the option to read the full text online. http://dels.nas.edu/wstb/reportDetail.php?link_id=5525&session_id=9ob824guejt0lrarrucg91l934.

Ferguson, Bruce. Porous Pavements. CRC Press. 2005.

Harvesth2o.com. The online rainwater harvesting community.

Holway, Jim. "We Must Invest to be Sustainable," Arizona Republic. February 2, 2009. http://sustainability.asu.edu/news/greentalk/are-our-current-growth-and-water-use-sustainable

Sustainable Sites Initiative. www.sustainablesites.org.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water. www.epa.gov/ow.

Van Lare, Paula. "How Thirsty Is Your Community?" Zoning Practice. May 2005.

Water Environment Research Foundation. www.werf.org. Includes many resrouces such as "Using Rainwater to Grow Livable Communities." www.werf.org/livablecommunities.

Yocca, David J. "Integrated Ecological Planning and Site Design," Tuesdays at APA presentation. July 15, 2008. www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa/2008/jul15.htm.

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