{"id":1519,"date":"2009-05-04T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.22.4.40\/news3\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2009-05-04T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:32:59","slug":"sustainable-development-and-water-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/sustainable-development-and-water-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Development and Water Harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. David Eisenberg and Mr. Brad Lancaster visited Alfaisal University on Saturday 18 April 2009 to share their experiences about two important environmental topics: Green buildings: the importance of indigenous building techniques and materials; and Exploitation of domestic wastewater and rain runoff. The event was well attended by faculty and students. Students in particular asked numerous questions both during and at the end of the two presentations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green Buildings: The importance of indigenous building techniques and materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. David Eisenberg, an expert on Green Building Materials, has spent his career advocating for sustainable development. As founder of the Building Code Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council, he has delivered keynote addresses and led seminars at dozens of conferences and universities throughout the world. Mr. Eisenberg promotes the use of indigenous, low-tech and traditional building materials to conserve resources, protect natural habitats and local culture, and save money. He is the author of \u201cThe Straw Bale House.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcat.net\/about_dcat\/staff.php\"> http:\/\/www.dcat.net\/about_dcat\/staff.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exploitation of domestic wastewater and rain runoff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1521 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/10.22.4.40\/news3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Brad-Lancaster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"138\" \/>Mr. Brad Lancaster, an expert on Water Harvesting and Water Management, is the author of the award-winning series \u201cRainwater Harvesting for Dry lands\u201d. Mr. Lancaster promotes methods to conserve and exploit available water resources, such as rainwater, household wastewater, topsoil, sun, plants and more. He has \u201charvested\u201d more than 350,000 liters of water towards food-bearing shade trees, gardens, and a flood-controlling landscape. He will present his research to the 2009 International Water Conservation Conference in Tucson, Arizona. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestingrainwater.com\"> http:\/\/www.harvestingrainwater.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. David Eisenberg and Mr. Brad Lancaster visited Alfaisal University on Saturday 18 April 2009 to share their experiences about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"college-department":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sustainable Development and Water Harvesting - Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/sustainable-development-and-water-harvesting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sustainable Development and Water Harvesting - 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