Despite the flurry of water news around the issue of Asheville's water system, the response to reviving the Water Action Group has been minimal - one person responded to the Doodle poll for a meeting. I want to initiate an effort to make Asheville the first water-sustainable city, and would like to present it as a TA Water Action Group initiative. I will load a PowerPoint presentation, comments by slide number, and a copy of a sign-on sheet I would like to circulate into the Documents section for the Water Action Group. Please let me know what you think about adopting
The Water Action Group will give a presentation on A NEW APPROACH TO WATER: For a Water-Sustainable Asheville. Asheville still receives enough rain to demonstrate a possible path to water sustainability. Low-cost methods used for centuries in dry parts of the world but which are not well-known in WNC and other temperate areas offer to protect crops, gardens, and landscaping during drought conditions to maintain property values, and to provide new job opportunities, lower water costs, reduced waste, less strain on infrastructure, decreased energy costs, minim