Greywater Reuse, Rainwater Harvesting, and a New Culture of Water: Low-Tech Collaborations Among Common Waters

This talk charts two streams in urban water policy: a practical consideration of how to design, disseminate, and regulate decentralized greywater and rainwater harvesting systems, and a social-political consideration of what kinds of water infrastructures and social relationships to water promote equitable and environmentally sustainable societies. Through an exploration of the Greywater Guerrillas / Greywater Action's 13 years of grassroots education and policy work, Woelfle-Erskine will discuss current opportunities and constraints to create integrated urban waterscapes as an alternative ever-expanding water works.

Speaker: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Energy Resource Group, Berkeley

Room 315A