Eden — Design Process

Every day, America alone dumps 9 billion gallons of water on landscaping. And roughly half of this is wasted because of inefficient watering practices.

Now if you’re having trouble picturing this, 1 billion gallons of water can be used to fill up 20,000,000 bathtubs with water.

That many ^

Quite a bit, huh? If the current irrigation system is wasting all this water, I think it’s quite obvious we need a more efficient one.

Plus, when you think about it, this problem can be at least partially solved through the use of modern technology and smarter practices.

For example, while talking to people, I learnt that most of them used automatic sprinklers. The problem with this is that automatic sprinklers tend to follow a rigid system. The sprinkler cycles follow a set pattern and they have to be programmed to your needs.

So say it rains on Tuesday and the sprinkler is set to run on Wednesday, most users won’t think to turn off their sprinklers for Wednesday. Even though it isn’t really helping the plants anymore.

But this is a very typical type of human error. Design helps eliminate human error. So I figured that by redesigning the…