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The Wimberley ISD's one-water school, Blue Hole Primary, has been recognized by the Texas Water Development Board with the Texas Rain Catcher Award.
The Texas Rain Catcher Award, a rainwater harvesting competition and recognition program, is given to acknowledge excellent application of rainwater harvesting systems in Texas, promote rainwater harvesting technology, and educate the public about this water-saving practice according to the Texas Water Newsroom.
Blue Hole Primary was designed and constructed using the One Water concept to minimize water use and optimize onsite reuse by approaching drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater as a single resource. The campus can collect and store up to 200,000 gallons of rainwater. It also has capacity to recycle 600 to 1,300 gallons of air conditioning condensate per day to be reused for flushing toilets and landscape irrigation. These processes reduce the campus' water consumption by 90% and conserve an estimated 237 acre-feet of groundwater over 30 years.
The Texas Raincatcher Award is open to individuals, companies, municipalities, and other local and state government entities in Texas. Blue Hole Primary is one of six sites being recognized by the Texas Water Development Board this year.
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