Why It Matters

Shifting Currents: From Consumption to Care.

Stormwater retention isn't just about infrastructure—it's about life. When we slow, spread, and sink rain where it falls, we prevent polluted runoff from overwhelming waterways, restoring the balance of ecosystems that depend on clean, cold, flowing water.

This directly impacts keystone species like salmon, whose wellbeing is vital to the symbiotic health of entire ecosystems. Salmon nourish forests with marine nutrients, sustain indigenous traditions, and support species from eagles to orcas. By investing in decentralized water stewardship, we invest in nature’s interconnected resilience—beginning with a raindrop and rippling out to entire bioregions.

Rain is a resource—not runoff.

Many of the water systems that keep ecosystems thriving and feed a growing human population have become stressed. Rivers, lakes and aquifers are drying up or becoming too polluted to use. More than half the world’s wetlands have disappeared. 🔗

World’s Water Supply

  • Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface.

  • 97% of the earth's water is saline(too salty for drinking, growing crops, and most industrial uses except cooling).

  • 3% of the earth's water is fresh.

  • 2.5% of the earth's fresh water is unavailable: glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth's surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.

  • 0.5% of the earth's water is available fresh water.

  • If the world's water supply were only 100 liters (26 gallons), our usable water supply of fresh water would be only about 0.003 liter (one-half teaspoon).🔗

water scarcity

aquifer recharge

Green Stormwater Infrastructure refills groundwater by letting rain soak into the soil, which supports clean, reliable water for the long term. In cities, pavement and pipes speed stormwater away, while heavy use and pollution put added pressure on aquifers. Simple green solutions like cisterns, rain gardens, bioswales, and permeable pavement let water slow down, filter through, and recharge the ground naturally.

Harvest Rain