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Upcoming Events

Coho Confab - Presentation, Tour and Workshop (Camp Meeker, CA and OAEC)

August 13, 2010 - 1:00pm

Bay-Friendly Landscape Conference - Rainwater Harvesting Session (San Francisco, CA

September 17, 2010 - 10:00am

Wise Water Management Workshop - October (OAEC)

October 9, 2010 - 10:00am

BIONEERS - Change Vs. Transformation Session - 2:45 PM (San Rafael, CA)

October 17, 2010 - 2:45pm

What's New

The Salmon Creek Water Conservation Plan

Check out the plan and conservation strategies just released by the Salmon Creek Water Conservation Program

Roof Water Harvesting For A Low Impact Impact Water Supply

Check out this informative new booklet The WATER Institute has put together.

Saving From a Rainy Day

Brock featured in this Press Democrat article printed in October 2009.

Brock at Bioneers in 2009

Read this blog on Brock's plenary speech.

Press Democrat Article - by Janet Parmer (10/22/09)

Saving from a rainy day

Liquid assets: Conserving is key, but storing water is a growing green trend

CHRISTOPHER CHUNG/ PD

Brock Dolman, director of the WATER Institute at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, installed a rainwater catchment on a small goat shed.

By JANET PARMER
FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 12:17 p.m.

If the phone calls he’s been receiving are any indication, Brock Dolman could have a full-time job installing systems that catch winter rainwater and store it for lean rainfall months. Read more...