Location: Albuquerque, NM
The Xeriscape Council of New Mexico and Arid LID are partnering to bring the 2014 Land & Water Summit: Drought as an Opportunity For Change. Over the past several years, drought has dominated over all of our lives. The demands on limited and decreasing water resources are stressed yet new demands are continuously being added. This year, the Xeriscape Council of New Mexico and Arid Low Impact Development (LID) are striving to find both traditional and non-traditional speakers that generate positive change through storm water mitigation, water harvesting and reuse, and low impact design principles. They will be using the drought as an opportunity to assist attendees in promoting both creative solutions and innovations in the field. Speakers will include: Cynthia Barnett, author, Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis; James Urban, author, Up By Roots, specialist in managing trees in a built environment; Karen Guz, director of Conservation, San Antonio Water System and 2012 Water Star award winner and Catlow Shipek, Watershed Management Group Inc. There will also be a roundtable discussion “Balance Point: Finding the Reality Between Cost, Regulation and Ideals in Green Infrastructure Design,” which will address issues surrounding the changes in Federal storm water regulations. The roundtable will include representation from commercial developers, specialists in arid low impact development and federal and state regulators.
For more information, visit xeriscapenm.com.