Please Note:This website explains green building for a climate zone comparable to North Texas or Central Texas, such as the climate of Waco or Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. It is important to hire a green builder who is an expert in energy-efficient building in your climate zone.

Exterior Water Conservation in Green Building

A Green Home Conserves Water Outdoors

 

This website is for the climate zone that includes North Central Texas or the DFW area such as Plano, Keller, or Dallas-Fort Worth Texas.  Regardless of your climate zone, the first priority for green building or energy-efficient remodeling is to hire an energy consultant and a green builder who understand and use up-to-date green building practices for your area. 

July and August in North Texas will not change. The sun will always beam down, rain will always be scarce, and most golf courses and traditionally landscaped yards will always turn brown without copious irrigation. Yet, come summer in Dallas-Fort Worth, swimming pools simmer, parks and golf courses are watered profusely, and yards stay green as their owners keep up with the water-guzzling Joneses. 

DFW  consumes more water -- and does less to conserve it -- than any other urban area in the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board and government records.

Although some parts of the world and United States are already experiencing water shortages, North Central Texas is not really one of those. That is primarily because Texas is a large state and DFW has flooded much of the land around Dallas-Fort Worth and even into East Texas. 

Suburban sprawl has made future water reservoirs near Dallas-Fort Worth somewhat impractical. East Texas seems be balking at letting DFW flood more area there. Thus, it seems significantly expanded water conservation must be a major component of the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s future efforts to ensure adequate supplies.

And that conservation includes both the exterior and the interior of the home.....

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Landscaping
 the Green Home
Rainwater Harvesting
Using Permeable Paving

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Frugal Energy, LLC
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Green Homes in DFW

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