¡Agua es Vida! — Water is Life — will probably be an occasion devoted to water sustainability within the desert on Saturday. Organized by Sustainable Tucson, there will probably be actions on the Watershed Administration Group and The Loft Cinema.
“My husband and I are obsessed with rainwater harvesting,” mentioned Jana Segal-Stormont, environmental advocacy and water committee lead at Sustainable Tucson. “And the occasion isn’t just about rainwater harvesting — it is about how we could be extra sustainable with water. I consider Tucson may very well be this oasis within the desert if extra folks knew what to do.”
¡Agua es Vida! Celebration of Water within the Desert and Brief Movie Showcase will start at 8 a.m. on the Watershed Administration Group. Actions embrace a go to to their Rain Gardens and a tour of the Residing Lab. Attendees will study in regards to the group’s rainwater harvesting techniques, compost bogs, laundry-to-landscape greywater harvesting system, meals forest, and extra. This family-friendly a part of the occasion is free and can run till 1:30 p.m.
“On the Residing lab, folks will learn to make their very own harvesting basin for rainwater and so they’ll take house a B.Y.O.B. package – a build-your-own-basin package,” Segal-Stormont mentioned.
At 2 p.m. the celebration of water will transfer down the road to the Loft Cinema for a brief movie showcase. Troubadour Ted Ramirez will kick issues off with a “mini live performance.”
The screening will embrace eight brief documentaries by native filmmakers.
“One in all them will probably be about Brad Lancaster and he is sort of a hero,” Segal-Stormont mentioned.
Lancaster is the Tucson-based writer of the best-selling e-book “Rainwater
Harvesting for Drylands and Past.”
After the documentaries, there will probably be a filmmaker and water knowledgeable Q&A.
The total checklist of documentaries and tickets for the screening can be found on the Loft Cinema’s web site. Tickets can be bought on the field workplace. Common admission is $8, kids and seniors go in for $7.50 and Loft Members pay $6.