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The Water Conservation Challenge
Water is Hot
Water restrictions, drought and talk of climate change have made urban water use and and water management a hot issue. Sportsfields, racetracks, golf courses and parks and gardens are receiving close scrutiny. With that attention has come many good, and a few suspect, ideas for saving water that you have to sort through.
Complex living environment
Irrigated open space is a complex, living and changing environment. The weather changes, soil conditions vary, plants grow and die, and of course user expectations change with the seasons. Sometimes, and in some places, there is too much water, at other times or places there can be too little. Simple "tick a box" templates for water management plans struggle to deal with this complexity and anyone who has started the process knows it takes considerable work to acheive any useful outcomes.
Which solution works for my site?
Success in managing this complex environment depends on you getting a hundred small decisions right, along with a few big ones.
At Hydrozone we believe there are few easy “off-the-shelf” solutions. But there are many excellent water conservation possiblities out there. Most need to be customized and packaged to meet the particular needs of your site. We also believe success in these projects requires an excellent understanding of plants and soils and how they interact with water. Especially when big engineering works are involved.
Are you working on the obvious problems while missing the big opportunities?
Limited resources
Then there is the constant squeeze on funding for both capital works and ongoing maintenance. Many water conservation projects require significant spending or time to implement. Many managers are under pressure to "just do something" about water or "just keep it green". Ad hoc projects that are implemented in this way often cost more and deliver less benefits than can be achieved if they are part of a Hydrozone Water Management Plan.
