DIY Water Audit
In the Do It Yourself Water Audit, three areas of water conservation will be addressed: cisterns, outdoor and indoor conservation. Additionally, the water related items of the conservation kits will be explained.
Cisterns—Speaker Bio: Jack Burden
New cisterns with decorative wraps can save up to 65% of residential water use.
Jack Burden is a principal partner in Raindrops Cisterns Inc., a Florida-owned leader in water catchment and reuse technologies. Jack grew up as a “waterman” in South Florida and his connection with the precious resource goes back to his early days sailing and diving in South Florida and the Bahamas. Travelling the world in the early eighties, Jack was witness to the “water riots” at the India/ Bangladesh border, and had an epiphany that this was the future for all of us….an inevitable struggle over the most dear of all scarce resources.
Raindrops Cisterns designs, installs, and maintains above and below- ground cistern systems for homes, schools, municipal buildings, and commercial concerns throughout Florida. RDC, as part of a professional consortium, Florida Waterscapes LLC, has recently been awarded a 68 acres low impact development storm water design contract, pioneering new water quality solutions for polluted run-off.
Jack is a co-chair of the SEE alternative water use committee in Sarasota; sits on the peer review board of the Low Impact Development Manual; and is an American Rain Systems Catchment Association accredited professional.
Outdoor Water Conservation—Speaker:
- Spencer Phillips, Palm Beach County Chapter President of the Florida Irrigation Society
Indoor Water Conservation—Speaker Bio: Sam Dorfman
Sam Dorfman is the Grassy Waters Preserve Nature Center Program Coordinator.
Mr. Dorfman has spent the last 15 years in the environmental field entertaining, educating and activating people of all ages. He began his career in Florida, after completing his dive training, by leading underwater dive tours of the reefs and wreck off Palm Beach. He received his degree from Florida Atlantic University and has worked as a Naturalist in several Nature Centers in Florida and in the Chicagoland area.Sam will lead the indoor water conservation portion of the session.
The Need for Water Conservation in West Palm Beach—Speaker:
Patrick Painter is the City's Environmental Resource Manager. In this session Mr. Painter will address the City's watershed, Grassy Waters Preserve, and why it is so vital, particularly in our community, that we conserve this limited resource.
