CA License #1116601
Drought-Ready Homes Start Here:
Serving Northern California
Explore The Water Folk's Cutting-Edge Rain Catchment and Greywater Systems!
Schedule a consultation today!
Whats included in a consultation? As an initial interaction, The Water Folk offers a Residential or Commercial Water Systems Consultation. Our team will visit your property and spend approximately an hour doing a thorough review of water systems on your land, looking at watershed health and possibilities for improving watershed health and water infiltration. A water systems consult will assess possibilities for rainwater catchment and greywater reuse, as well as focal points for water movement issues on the landscape. Utilizing a permaculture-based approach, the consult will look at issues of flooding and poor drainage, as well as points for reducing erosion, harvesting rainwater, and encouraging the slowing, spreading, and sinking of water. Following our assessment, our team will provide an estimate for any specific work that may be wished for as follow up.
What We Do
Greywater Systems
Greywater systems are the lowhanging fruit in terms of safely bringing recycled water back into your local ecological system. Our specialists can install a system in a matter of 1 to 2 days and will design a system that is optimized for your specific water usage. The easiest system to install is a laundry to landscape (L2L) system, which runs from your clothes washer to designated plants in your landscape that you want to give more water to.
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Affordable!
Easy to install
& maintain
Great way to help against drought!Â
Rain Catchment Systems
Rainwater harvesting and catchment systems are for those ready to take a step beyond greywater systems. Tank systems allow storage of water for distribution as needed. This means you can catch rainwater in the winter and distribute it during the dry months of the year.
Collected rainwater can then be used for many purposes, from gardens and landscape irrigation, to other household purposes (following filtration).
Efficient passive
form of collection
A step towards water autonomyÂ
Variable tank sizes
for all needs
Water Retention Landscape
Water retention landscapes are the most involved way to transform your local landscape into a resilient, abundant micro water ecosystem. Basins, diversion swales, check dams, and other earth technologies are used in combination to slow, spread, and sink any water that moves over and through the landscape, whether from direct rainfall or runoff flowing from higher elevations. While we do not formally offer retention landscaping, our specialists will help consult with you to create a custom plan to suite your landscape.
Most ecologically restorative
Adapted to your landscapeÂ
Great way to help against drought!Â
Melinda: Half Moon Bay, Ca
"The Water Folk Team did a great job installing a rain catch system in my yard where the tanks catch the rain and the overflow is sent to the rain garden. It enables the water to sink into the land. They did a fantastic job of making it all look beautiful and natural with water loving native plants. They also installed drip lines, Native Plants and woodchips. They are very friendly and have great creative ideas and work with you on how you want your yard to look and what you want your plan to be. They are excellent, and I highly recommend!
In many parts of California we are seeing rapid desertification, due in part to the rapid loss of water held in local ecosystems, and rain runoff that is unable to be absorbed into the landscape.
Our team at The Water Folk strives to play a role in reversing this process through implementation and education around best water management practices such as greywater, rain catchment systems, and water retention landscapes
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The Water Folk offers the needed support, education, and opportunities for the collective responsibility it will take to restore our relationship to water.
Our team at The Water Folk is committed to providing inspiration and education ​for humans to connect more deeply with our shared responsibility of caring for water.
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We envision a world with healthy and resilient human water management that supports climate stabilization, resilient ecosystems and universal access to clean, fresh water.
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We commit our work and lives to this, and to the task of connecting people with organizations, communities, and opportunities for education that focus on this shared purpose.
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The Water Folk provides professional support for developing systems for rain water harvesting, planning water retention landscapes, and implementing greywater systems for your home, on your land, or through your community.