16th Annual Water Conservation Showcase

The annual Water Conservation Showcase will take place on March 21, 2019 in San Francisco, California, U.S. Now in its 16th year running, it is among the most highly regarded water conservation events in California. The Showcase will gather experts, inspired citizens, and professionals from across the region on at the Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco.

Bay Area Water Conservation Awards Ceremony
Description: The Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards that have been selected annually since 2009 have been expanded this year to include the entire Bay Area, and the awards ceremony will be included as part of this year’s Water Conservation Showcase. More information about these awards including information on the award categories, how to nominate award candidates, and past award recipients can be found here.
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Firescaping
Description: Join Douglas Kent, author of Firescaping, as he highlights the essential qualities of a protected property and community. Doug will be focusing on roads, structures, defensible space, outlying areas and community obligations. Doug Kent is an instructor at Cal-Poly-Pomona and has been working to create fire safe properties and communities since 1993.
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Panel on Residential Landscape Programs
Description: Attend this session to learn about residential landscape programs offered by three water utilities: Contra Costa, Sonoma County Water Agency and the City of Sacramento Department of Utilities. Programs include landscape design assistance, design templates and lawn to garden rebates. Session will highlight water savings and other benefits of these programs.

Panel on Water/Energy Nexus
Description: Session will explore projects at a variety of scales that produce both water and energy savings.

Panel on Water Re-Use
Description: This panel presentation will explore national trends, new water re-use standards, system design details, water treatment concerns, other best practices and lessons learned from past project work. Panel will feature insights from three engineers that design these systems and two water utility representatives that have developed standards and worked on water re-use projects.

Project Work from Water Champions
Description: One of the Bay Area Water Conservation Award categories is “Water Champion”. This award is given to individuals in the private or public sector whose conservation efforts inspire everyone to use water more wisely. This presentation will feature the work of this year’s water champion nominees or past recipients of this award.

Water Efficient Home of the Future
Description: Presentation will explore how residences will evolve and become more sophisticated at managing water consumption. The impact of emerging technologies, the novel integration of existing technologies and the influence of the Internet will be examined as part of this panel presentation.

Water Metering
Description: As the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) increases across water utility service territories, more and more stakeholders are recognizing the benefits of interval-level water meters. Some are even integrating additional submeters to track the water use of specific processes or tenants. This session will look at the many benefits of metering water use at a variety of scales. Advanced data analytics, baselining water use, implementation best practices, leak detection, and the measurement of water savings will be discussed.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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Design Charrette on Residential Landscapes
Description: Workshop session will highlight a number of landscape and plant challenges and then ask the training participants to address these challenges in a mini-design charrette.
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LEED Water Credits
Description: Workshop session will explore the revised water credits in the newest version of the LEED green building rating system (LEED 4.1) and outline specific strategies that can be deployed to secures these LEED credits.

Rainwater Harvesting
Description: Led by two rainwater experts, this workshop will identify best practices and lessons learned from the implementation of rainwater collection systems across a range of projects scales and in a variety of climates.

Soil Health
Description: Workshop session will look at many soil concerns including specific strategies one can deploy to improve the quality of poor soil conditions, soil testing, sloped sites, and carbon sequestration.