Connecting
the Rain Drops.
Cities experience water as one connected system. The infrastructure managing it is often built one property at a time. Shoalwater exists to connect the two.
Small projects.
Larger system.
Rain gardens, cisterns, green roofs, and other forms of green infrastructure are usually developed as individual projects. But water does not experience them individually.
Shoalwater brings those distributed systems into a larger picture — helping develop projects, preserve their performance data, and connect them into a growing layer of watershed infrastructure.
Cesar Tinajero
Cesar came to this work by following the same thread through very different experiences: how do we build systems that work with their surroundings rather than against them?
Through sustainable building, off-grid systems, humanitarian projects, green stormwater infrastructure, and entrepreneurship, water repeatedly emerged as part of a much larger system of resilience.
As his work expanded into technology, he saw an opportunity to scale what had traditionally remained small and distributed — using technology, data, and measurement to connect low-impact development and other nature-based systems into a larger living network.
That perspective became Shoalwater: small interventions taking on greater value when they are connected, measured, and coordinated as part of a larger system.
View LinkedIn ↗Technology should not pull us further from nature — it should help us understand, strengthen, and scale it.
One useful project at a time.
Starting in Seattle and Puget Sound.
