Oral Presentations and Performances: Session III
Project Type
Presentation
Project Funding and Affiliations
Aibia
Faculty Mentor’s Full Name
Hilary Faxon
Faculty Mentor’s Department
W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation
Additional Mentor
Tim Weldon, weldontimothy@gmail.com
Abstract / Artist's Statement
Climate change has intensified seasonal droughts particularly in Mediterranean climates. For the southern regions of Italy, the small Molisan village of Roccavivara faces increasingly worse water restrictions, with water supplies shut off for up to twelve hours a day during summer.
This project examines whether a community-based rainwater harvesting (RWH) system could offer both practical and social benefits in a town historically shaped by a decades long feud.
Over month and a half, I took measurements for prototypes, conducted interviews into how this community reacted to the climate technology solution of RWH, and finding people who want to implement it. I am anticipating a qualitative review of how people respond to implementation, as well as a quantitative study on how much water will be viable during different portions of the year.
By creating a slow building community wide RWH that connects house to house for the people to share and use. I predict that spring and fall will have to highest rainfall to supplement summer issues. As well as the possibility of it lessening the historic feud.
Evidenced its potential to bring water sovereignty by supplementing water supplies, build water resilience, and strengthen community wide comradery. All while making a easily implementable prototype.
Category
Social Sciences
HOW TO ADAPT TO WATER UNCERTAINTY : Rainwater Harvesting
UC 329
Climate change has intensified seasonal droughts particularly in Mediterranean climates. For the southern regions of Italy, the small Molisan village of Roccavivara faces increasingly worse water restrictions, with water supplies shut off for up to twelve hours a day during summer.
This project examines whether a community-based rainwater harvesting (RWH) system could offer both practical and social benefits in a town historically shaped by a decades long feud.
Over month and a half, I took measurements for prototypes, conducted interviews into how this community reacted to the climate technology solution of RWH, and finding people who want to implement it. I am anticipating a qualitative review of how people respond to implementation, as well as a quantitative study on how much water will be viable during different portions of the year.
By creating a slow building community wide RWH that connects house to house for the people to share and use. I predict that spring and fall will have to highest rainfall to supplement summer issues. As well as the possibility of it lessening the historic feud.
Evidenced its potential to bring water sovereignty by supplementing water supplies, build water resilience, and strengthen community wide comradery. All while making a easily implementable prototype.