David B. Brooks

Soft Planning

These steps serve as a basic guideline for creating a water soft path plan. This process can be undertaken at the community, regional, watershed and even provincial level. ...

Ingenuity Trumps Hard Tech

Throughout history, water management has meant constructing dams, digging and drilling wells, and extending canals and pipelines into cities and farmers’ fields. Industrialized nations have been spectacularly successful at delivering vast amounts of water wherever and whenever it was required. In wealthy countries, water has been readily available to humans, their farms, factories and power-generating stations, with sufficient quantities left over for gardens, parks and swimming pools. Imagine Las Vegas. ...

Reversing the Flow

This issue of Alternatives focuses on water soft paths. For most people this statement invites the question: What are water soft paths? Though noun and adjective have been reversed, water soft paths share a common heritage with the soft energy paths developed in the 1970s by a group of researchers including Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado.

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