Site Water Management Planning: A Handbook for Water Conservation, Golf & Irrigation Professionals

This timely new book by industry expert Tim Wilson helps professionals conserve water and deal with new water restrictions and regulations. It does so by providing professionals with the skills to create site water management plans for the landscape – golf – irrigation industries. This book is written to help professionals rise to the challenge of managing water in the 21st century. This is not simply a book on landscape auditing or scheduling. It goes beyond these principles to look at the entire process of developing site water management plans. Within its pages the reader will find clear and organized steps for delivering comprehensive water management plans for their own sites or for sites that they manage on contract. Inside one will find useful checklists for collecting, organizing and analyzing site data. In addition, there are tables, graphs and pictures which help simplify and illustrate the sometime complicated issues of site water management. Finally, the reader will find a completed sample site water management plan. To assist the reader with the creation of their own plans there is also a CD with spreadsheet software included with the book that will perform the calculations and produce the needed tables and charts for a professional water management plan. Today professionals struggle with keeping clients happy and sites green, all with less water that costs more, this book arrives just in time to help them present concrete solutions to real water problems.