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Collecting the Desert’s Most Precious Resource

Collecting the Desert’s Most Precious Resource. New Buildings By Daniel Gust, JJ Istrin, Blake McCay, Lincoln Perino, Amanda Talesnick,. Water Harvesting. Water harvesting is the collection of runoff for future usage Water harvesting is essential for irrigation in the desert

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Collecting the Desert’s Most Precious Resource

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  1. Collecting the Desert’s Most Precious Resource New Buildings By Daniel Gust, JJ Istrin, Blake McCay, Lincoln Perino, Amanda Talesnick,

  2. Water Harvesting • Water harvesting is the collection of runoff for future usage • Water harvesting is essential for irrigation in the desert • Water harvesting is cheap and necessary for preserving the water table

  3. Highland Commons: • Combined Roof top area 45,552 ft2 • 40,997 ft3 of water harvesting potential in an average year • Can irrigate 11,388 ft2 of turf

  4. Euclid Housing • Roof top 56,500 ft2 • 50,850 ft3 of water harvesting potential in an average year • Can irrigate 14,125 ft2 of turf

  5. Institute for Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology • Roof top 33,706 ft2 • 30,335 ft3 of water harvesting potential in an average year • Can irrigate 8,427 ft2 of turf

  6. Solutions: • Rainstore 3 is a storage structure for storing water underground • Can store 94% of the rain water that enters the structure • Can build a road or turf over it • Can make it any size you want • It is a cheap easy way to store rain water

  7. Solutions: • Southwest photovoltaic Systems manufactures 9300 Series submersible pumps • Solar panels that collect sunlight which generates energy for pumps • Essential for the desert environment, because there are 320 days of sunshine • When the sun is shining is when water is most essential for vegetation • It is a sustainable solution to irrigation.

  8. Collecting the Desert’s Most Precious Resource Unvr 195a Water Reclamation in the Tucson Basin Dr. JJ Riley Arin Haverland By Daniel Gust JJ Istrin Blake McCay Lincoln Perino Amanda Talesnick References Grant McCormick, Campus Planner Rodney Mackey, Senior Architect Steve Allbin, Senior Mechanical Inspector THE END

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