Home > American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association Conference       Home    How To Listen    H2O Links    BLOG    Notification List ==~==~==~==~==~==    Water      Oceans      Seas      Great Lakes      Wetlands      Rivers          Waterkeepers®          American Rivers      Misc. - But Important    Earth          Pesticides      Earth's Tree News      Tropical Rain Forest    Vegetarian/Vegan    CAFOs    Climate History    Conferences    Energy    Nuclear Energy    Other Podcasts    Transportation    Turkish    Down in the Valley RSS FEED: Copy and Paste this feed: RSS FEED into your Aggregator Software to download New podcasts Automatically.    American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association Conference Rainwater harvesting enthusiasts, practitioners, and experts will join at the August 14-17, 2007 American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association Conference held on the on the Island of Hawai`i to discuss a broad range of rainwater catchment topics, including potable and non-potable household supply, storm-water runoff control, groundwater recharge, sustainable development, floods and droughts. Contact Info: http://hawaiirain.org/; info@HawaiiRain.org Audio Editing by: http://H2Opodcast.com Copyright © 2007 ARCSA 2007, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== Senator Kokubun ====>Click to hear Introduction to Conference: Hawaiì's Commitment to Sustainability " ============== ============== ============== Dean Hashimoto ====>Click to hear Moving Beyond Water Quality ============== ============== ============== Heather Kinkaid Levario ====>Click to hear Introduction to Conference: Rainwater as an Integrated Solution ============== ============== ============== Scott Leonard ====>Click to hear Introduction to Conference: Water for Life ============== ============== ============== Kent Butler ====>Click to hear Rain Catchment and Adaptive Building Use: The Historic Seaholm Power Plant ============== ============== ============== Mark Buehrer ====>Click to hear Wholistic Engineering Applied to Living Building Systems ============== ============== ============== Mark Buehrer ====>Click to hear Q and A for Mark's paper ============== ============== ============== Colin Chatfield ====>Click to hear Urban Rainwater Harvesting: Analysis of a Decentralized Approach for Meeting Water Demand in Urban Cities. An opportunity for the US? ============== ============== ============== Colin Chatfield ====>Click to hear Q and A for Colin's paper ============== ============== ============== Bob Bouleware ====>Click to hear Integrating Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems With Rainwater Catchment ============== ============== ============== Andy Lipkis - Keynote Address Rainwater Catchment as a Sustainable Solution to Integrated Urban Problems ====>Click to hear Part 1 ====>Click to hear Part 2 ====>Click to hear Part 3 ============== ============== ============== Jack Schultz ====>Click to hear The Design and Operation of a Residential Potable Rainwater Catchment System from the Perspectives of the Designer, Builder, and Owner ============== ============== ============== Jack Schultz ====>Click to hear Q and A for Jack's paper ============== ============== ============== Heather Kinkaid Levario ====>Click to hear Rainwater Catchment Design for Cold Climates ============== ============== ============== Abe Hicking ====>Click to hear Establishment of a WQ Monitoring in the Remote Outer Islands of The Marshall Islands ============== ============== ============== Craig Evans ====>Click to hear Coliforms, Biofilms, Microbial Diversity and the Quality of Roof-Harvested Rainwater ============== ============== ============== Roger Fujioka ====>Click to hear Simple & Reliable Tests for Homeowners to Determine the Microbial Drinking Water Quality of Rainwater Collected from Roofs and Stored in Cistern Tanks ============== ============== ============== Jim Currie ====>Click to hear Living High--Living Low: Water Quality in the Federated States of Micronesia ============== ============== ============== Justin Mechell ====>Click to hear Rainwater Harvesting: Soil Storage and Infiltration Systems ============== ============== ============== Day 2 Q and A ====>Click to hear Day 2 Q and A ============== ============== ============== Cado Daily ====>Click to hear A Balancing Act: Growth, the Economy, and a River ============== ============== ============== M.L. Robinson ====>Click to hear Constructed Wetlands: A Natural Filtering System for Conservation ============== ============== ============== Brad Lancaster ====>Click to hear Turning Drains into Sponges and Scarcity into Abundance ============== ============== ============== Ian White ====>Click to hear A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Factors That Contribute to Household Adoption of Rainwater Harvesting in Southeast Queensland ============== ============== ============== Billy Kniffen ====>Click to hear Rainwater Harvesting Education in Texas ============== ============== ============== Terry McMains ====>Click to hear Rain Harvesting: Proven & Reliable Water Supply for Master-Planned Communities ============== ============== ============== Indrasena Dissanayake ====>Click to hear Why Sri Lanka Should Concentrate on Rainwater Harvesting for Domestic Uses ============== ============== ============== David Osborne ====>Click to hear Davey Rainbank: From Concept to Second Generation ============== ============== ============== Day 3 Q and A for Morning Speakers ====>Click to hear Day 3 Q and A for Morning Speakers ============== ============== ============== Tim Pope ====>Click to hear Are We There Yet? Regulations & Building Codes for RC ============== ============== ============== Dennis Lye ====>Click to hear How Far Do We Go in Regulating the Installation and Maintenance and Water Quality of RC ============== ============== ============== Day 3 Q and A for Lunch Speakers ====>Click to hear Day 3 Q and A for Lunch Speakers ============== ============== ============== Duleep Goonewardene ====>Click to hear DuleepGoonewardeneStrategic Legislation on Rainwater Harvesting ============== ============== ============== Kagiso Habangana ====>Click to hear Dynamics of Rainwater Harvesting in Botswana: Understanding the Socioeconomic Aspects for Effective Implementation of Programmes and Policies ============== ============== ============== Joe Wheeler ====>Click to hear A German Model of Rainwater Collection ============== ============== ============== Day 3 Q and A for Afternoon Speakers ====>Click to hear Day 3 Q and A for Afternoon Speakers ============== ============== ============== What I Learned Stories ====>Click to hear Informal comments by some of the attendees ============== ============== ============== Copyright © 2007 ARCSA2007, All Rights Reserved. ============== ============== ============== Speaker Biosketches, ARCSA '07 Conference Bob Boulware (Indianapolis) is president of Design-Aire Engineering. Design-Aire specializes in energy conservation retrofit of HVAC and electrical building systems, and off-grid systems design. Mr. Boulware earned an engineering degree engineer from Purdue University and a master degree in business degree from Indiana University, and regularly uses his rain barrel to water his garden and wash his three dogs. Mark Buehrer (Bellingham, Washington) is the founder and president of 2020 Engineering. A registered civil engineer, March conceived of the idea of wholistic engineering, an integrated approach taking into consideration all factors of project development: laws and regulations, social concerns, politics, special interests, economic and environmental issues, technology, and resources. 2020's sustainable and low-impact designs include porous pavements and rain gardens, rainwater technology, and water reuse systems. Kent Butler (Austin, Texas) is professor of water resources and environmental planning at University of Texas, Austin, where is is also the assistant dean of architecture. Dr. Butler also consults in environmental planning. Colin Chatfield (Houston, TX) is North America business manager, for Pioneer Water Tanks, a BlueScope Water Company. Colin moved from Australia to the United States in 2005 to grow the Pioneer Water Tanks business and also support the growth of new and emerging US rainwater harvesting markets. Prior to 2005, Colin was involved in product and strategy development for the BlueScope Water Business in Australia and worked with local government and property developers to introduce rainwater harvesting solutions for both new and existing construction. Jim Currie (Micronesia) is a Canadian citizen living on Micronesia, with 20 years' experience international and domestic agricultural research management experience and with NGOs, governmental agencies, and universities, and USDA Region 9 Water Quality Project. He is vice president for Cooperative Research and Extension at the College of Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia. Katherine "Cado" Daily (Bisbee and Sierra Vista, Arizona) is program coordinator for the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension's Water Wise Program. The Water Wise program promotes water conservation through public education on water-conserving habits, xeric plant selection, residential water audits, landscape techniques, water harvesting, and graywater designs. Cado works with the Upper San Pedro Partnership- which you will hear more about in a minute-on the reducing demand side of the water balance equation. She was also ARCSA's Southwestern Regional for the past two years. Indrasena Dissanayake (DISSA-YAN-AKA) (Sri Lanka), was assistant director, Fisheries, Sri Lanka, for 13 years. In 1991, Indrasena was deputy director and project manager for the Dutch-funded Wetland Conservation Project. He is now attached to the Ministry of Higher Education as project coordinator of the Distance Education Modernization Project. He holds a BA (Hon) Economics, post-graduate diploma fisheries management, master of economics, and is completing a Ph.D. in environmental science. Craig Evans (Newcastle, Australia) is a post-graduate student from the University of Newcastle. He attained a bachelor of science with a major in biochemistry from the University of New England before undertaking a 12-month study at Newcastle into metabolic disturbances in children with autism. Craig is completing a Ph.D. investigating microbial diversity in rainwater harvesting systems. Dr. Roger Fujioka (Honolulu, HI) has been with University of Hawaii since 1972, has served as director of the Water Resources Research Center, and now serves as a researcher there. He is on the graduate faculty of the Department of Microbiology. He was formerly Professor of Public Health. He earned a BS in medical technology and an MS in microbiology from the University of Hawaii. At the Water Resources Research Center, he established an active research program in environmental water quality and public health microbiology. His research program focuses on assessing the public health significance of pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water, rainwater catchment systems, reclaimed sewage, streams, storm drains, estuaries, and harbors. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology and winner of the American Water Works Fulller Award. Duleep Goonewardene (GOON-WAR-DENA) (Sri Lanka) holds a BS in civil engineering from University of Moratuwa. Sri Lanka, and a masters degree in sanitary engineering from HE Delft, Netherlands, as well as a diploma in photography. He serves on the National Water Supply and Drainage Board of Sri Lanka. Kagiso Habagana (Botswana) graduated from the University of Botswana with a B.S. in economics. He worked as an assistant economist with Botswana Technology Center (BOTEC), and R&D institution with water as one of its research areas. Habagana has done research in decentralized economic planning, importance of technology t economic development, and finance and tax issues. As a technical assessment officer at BOTEC, he is responsible for evaluating technologies for their socio-economic impact on the population of Botswana. Abraham Hicking (Marshall Islands) is the chief of the USAEPA Water Quality Monitoring Laboratory on the island of Majuro since 1990. Before that, he was a science teacher at the high school for 12 years. Abraham has a B.S. from Seattle University in general science. Heather Kinkade-Levario (Phoenix, Arizona) is the president of ARCSA and the author of two rainwater books, Forgotten Rain and Design for Water. She is a LEED-accredited professional, a registered landscape architect, and is currently working on a Ph.D. in geography and sustainability. Heather is the Arizona Director of Planning of ARCADIS. Billy Kniffen (Menard, Texas) has been a county extension agent in agriculture and natural resources for Texas Cooperative Extension 24 years. He earned a BS in animal science from Abilene Christian College and an MS in agriculture education from Tarleton State University. He has served on the Texas Master Naturalist State Advisory Committee, as a state director of the Native Prairie Association of Texas, on Extension's Rainwater Task Force and the central region representative for the American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association. He has developed and taught the Master Gardener Rainwater Specialist course, certifying 200 Master Gardeners in the past 14 months. He will teach the first Texas Cooperative Extension workshop on in-home rainwater harvesting in September in Dallas. He has received the TAMU Board of Regents' Fellow Service Awards, Extension Superior Service award, and various industry and association awards. He lives in a home solely dependent on rainwater for all inside and outside water needs. Brad Lancaster (Tucson, Arizona) is author of the award-winning book, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1 and the soon-to-be-released Volume 2. Since 1993, he has operated a successful business offering teaching, consulting, and design of sustainable water harvesting and permaculture systems. In Tucson, he lives on a thriving 1/8-acre urban demonstration site. Andy Lipkis (Los Angeles, CA) is the founder of TreePeople, a nonprofit organization which encourages nature to heal cities. Our conference keynote speaker, Andy will share his inspiring experiences since 1974 in developing sustainable, integrated solutions to urban ecosystem problems in Los Angeles by working with the community and government agencies. Andy and his wife, Kate, were named to the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour. They also hold American Forests' Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1991, President Bush named TreePeople the 440th Point of Light. In 1998, Andy was honored as Founder of the Year at National Philanthropy Day. In 2001, Andy and colleague Dorothy Green received the Donald Hagman Award from the Southern California Association of Governments Advisory Council for individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improving the quality of life in the Southern California region. Dennis Lye (Cincinnati, Ohio) has a Ph.D. in microbiology. He has 27 years' experience in microbial quality of rainwater catchment systems. He is currently research microbiologist with USAEPA in Cincinnati in the National Exposure Research Lab. Terry McMains (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) is the sales manager for Bushman Tanks, had has installed many rainwater harvesting systems for a large subdivision developed by a national homebuilder in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Rancho Viejo. This development is the first master-planned community in the United States to implement rainwater harvesting on every home, with retrofitted homes showing a 29% reduction in domestic water use. Justin Mechell (College Station, Texas) is an extension agent for Texas Cooperative Extension in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University. David Osborne (Victoria, Australia) is the international general manager for Davey Water Products. Davey has been manufacturing pumps and associated equipment for 70 years for supplying the world's driest continent, Australia. As their largest export area is the Middle East, Davey knows about making pumps for challenging environments. Over the past six years, Davey has been at the forefront in Australia in recognizing the need for greater reuse of rainwater in metropolitan areas and has developed innovative products to meet the demands of this growing market segment. With a Davey sales and distribution facility in Chicago and 70 years' experience in moving water in more than 50 countries, David is eager to share experience of products development and market penetration with us today. Tim Pope (Friday Harbor, Washington) is principal of Northwest Water Source and Northwest Water Consulting. Tim has been building rainfall catchment systems in the Pacific Northwest for13 years. In this time he have provided more than 170 residential catchment systems, mostly for total use including potable in San Juan County. He has also worked with the legislature in Washington State to promote rainfall catchment and partner with the stormwater folks, using rainfall catchment systems as a form of mitigation for stormwater management. Tim lives on San Juan Island,.the other Big Island...although not so big. M.L. Robinson (Las Vegas, Nevada) has had a dynamic 22-year career in environmental horticulture as an associate professor/area specialist with expertise in water conservation, grant procurement, education program development, and applied research. He has worked for extension programs in Florida and Nevada. Educational programs he has developed include correctional horticultural training, desert bio-scape sustainable horticulture, and a semi-annual conference and trade show, Desert Green. Jack Schultz (Santa Cruz, California) holds California registration as a professional engineer for both mechanical and civil disciplines, and is a licensed general engineering contractor. His current engineering practice in Santa Cruz, California, is occupied with structural and water treatment design and general civil engineering analysis. He has had at least four other careers, one as a general contractor/designer/builder of custom residences and solar heating and cooling systems. Another careers was in basic physics research and the development of reverse osmosis desalination systems. For several years, he lectured nationwide on his adventures at sea, the study of marine mammals, and the engineering of solar energy systems. More recently, for seven years, he was superintendent of Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton. Lick Observatory is the parent organization of Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. Jack says he has tried retirement four times. . .and it hasn't worked. He is now looking forward to helping design ways to address the looming worldwide drinking water shortage. Joe Wheeler (Austin, Texas) had his first exposure to rainwater collection as a child at his grandfather's cabin in the mountains of New Mexico. No filtration, no sterilization, just catch it and use it. Six years ago, when building his personal residence, poor quality groundwater made the decision to harvest rainwater an easy one. Initially, the system was time-consuming and messy to maintain. His search for a better solution led him Germany, where he found proven rainwater collection technology and a new business opportunity. Ian White (Queensland, Australia) is a third-year Ph.D. candidate on scholarship in water quality and treatment at Griffith University, Australia. He strives to combine a scholarly mindfulness with a pragmatist's need for real results through a purposeful framework of informed and participative planning and action. 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