Alabama

Joshua Henderson

California

Fred Flynn

Chip Splinter

Alisa White

Florida

Johnathon Smith

John Lambie

Toby Lawrence

Georgia

Hall Roberts

Hawaii

William McClintick

Marc Taylor

James Derstler

Josephie Jackson

David Jackson

Harry Botkin

Guy Sherburne

Inspection Specialists

Curt Dyer

Mark Leatherman

Roger Smith

Accredited Associates

David Cowart

Rodney Matthes

Colby Patterson 

Hall Roberts

Karmendra Rossy

Mark your calendars for ARCSA's 10th Annual Conference!

• Educational Rainwater Workshops, Nov. 14-16
• Annual Conference, Nov. 17-18 
• ARCSA/IA Expo, Nov. 19-20

This year our Conference will focus on the challenges that the United States water supply faces and how Rainwater Harvesting can provide economically and environmentally viable solutions. ARCSA's Celebrity Key Note Speaker and notable educators and professionals will discuss fragile water supplies, impacts on water supplies by drought and flooding, four steps to a clean tank, and other topics such as myths about rainwater harvesting systems. We will also discuss the latest on legislative actions, codes and standards, rainwater guidelines, and stormwater guidelines. A conference wrap-up will include a panel and attendee discussion on how rainwater catchment in the U.S. can help provide solutions to U.S. water challenges.

This year promises to be another exciting conference as we continue our relationship with the Irrigation Association (IA) and provide attendees both ARCSA's educational rainwater sessions and IA's educational irrigation sessions as well as access to the irrigation/rainwater/pond exhibition.

Check out our Conference Page for more information

Registration opens soon! In the meantime, we're looking for volunteers for the big event. Interested in helping out? Contact Heather Kinkade at info@arcsa.org.

ARCSA is looking for articles on the topics of drought and rainwater catchment for the 2014 ARCSA Conference in Phoenix. All lectures will be held either on Monday, November 17th or Tuesday, November 18th.  

Anyone interested in presenting at the Conference is encouraged to submit an abstract of their proposed topic. The abstract should not exceed � page. All submissions include the following information: presentation title, author(s) name, organization(s), contact phone number(s) and email address(s) and author's expertise and qualifications. 

Suggested topics are:

Have an idea for an article? Please send your abstracts in Word or PDF format by June 13, 2014 to info@arcsa.org.

Learn more about the conference here

ARCSA's capacity to fulfill our mission is only limited only by the funds we can raise. We seek a few motivated members to join our team to gather personal and corporate donations; foundation and government grants; and bequests. 

Contact 

John Hammerstrom, Board Member 

305-852-8722 or  johnhammer@bellsouth.net

Heather Kinkade, Executive Director

512-617-6528 or heather.kinkade@arcsa.org

Help us fulfill ARCSA's mission: To promote sustainable rainwater harvesting practices to help solve potable, non-potable, stormwater and energy challenges throughout the world.

ARCSA member, RMS Rainwater Harvesting Systems, is a winner of the International Builders' Show 2014 Best of Show for a new design that converts rain into water that is safe for human consumption. The system arrives on site ready for installation and can be incorporated into almost any existing building, reducing water bills and lessening the need for reservoirs that take up valuable land. 

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ARCSA is reviving our Regional Representative program! Our hope is to expand the program to include more regions of the United States as well as other affiliated nations and areas of the world in order to expand knowledge of and education in sound rainwater harvesting practices. 

To promote and encourage awareness of ARCSA and rainwater harvesting, we need as many willing volunteers as possible in as many places as we can find them. What we are ideally looking for in an ARCSA regional representative are the following characteristics:

• A willingness to actively promote rainwater catchment, collection, and harvesting for all purposes
• The ability to promote ARCSA
• A willingness to contact other professionals within rainwater catchment and associated fields to share information about ARCSA training and continuing education
• Promotion and use within your own business or work environment sound professional practices and the highest standards of quality and integrity
• Be a certified ARCSA Accredited Professional or higher in good standing

There are many areas of the country not covered at this point and plenty of opportunity for interested people to jump in and participate.

If you are interested in being a Regional Representative, please contact ARCSA Board Member, Charlee Myers, at mtnmesa@usa.net.

The ARCSA Board voted to approve two motions relating to AP requirements. Motion 1 changes our 5 rainwater harvesting systems requirements for new APs, while Motion 2 requires ARCSA to look at outside institutions for mutually-beneficial partnerships and requires APs to purchase a Rainwater Harvesting Manual.

Review the full details of the two motions here