Top 10 Ways to Design/Construct to Save Water Outdoors on the Lot
- Capture and use rainwater.
- Preserve the native landscape.
- Improve your soils.
- Minimize irrigated turfgrass.
- Plant trees.
- Use native and naturalizing plant material.
- Reduce the amount of impervious surface.
- Direct run-off as a sheet flow to landscape areas where possible.
- Direct point discharges like downspouts to trees and other plantings.
- Begin detaining water at the source whenever possible.
