| Smartscape and Watersmart Workshops
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Description:
Smartscape: is a training program for nursery and landscape prefessionals designed to encourage horticulture prectices consistent with water conservation. Subject areas are irrigation management, working with desert-adapted plants, and marketing Smartscape services. Grant pays for 2 series of 9 workshops each.br>br>Watersmart: The objective of the Watersmart workshops is to reduce residential landscape water use by targeting homeowners with free workshops throughout the year. The three workshops are given on five Saturdays between January and June, 2000 (two in Green Valley area). Workshops include Drip Irrigation System Design, Plant Selection and Design, and How to Program an Irrigation Timer.
| College/School:
College of Agriculture | Department/Unit/Center:
The Cooperative Extension System |
Investigator(s):
Patricia Waterfall (patwater@ag.arizona.edu) |
Start date:
November 1999 | Duration:
One to two years | Total funding:
$22153 | Project status:
ongoing |
Funding source:
Arizona Department of Water Resources |
Research areas:
conservation; outreach |
