Watershed Management Group (WMG) Living Lab & Learning Center

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This office, demonstration site, and educational center features a landscape and food forest watered solely with harvested rainwater, stormwater, greywater, and air conditioning condensate. The site’s potable drinking water is supplied entirely by roof runoff captured in a 10,000-gallon below-ground cistern.

Additionally, the site features permitted site-built compost toilets (WMG sells kits, and offers classes, for the barrel-style composting toilets) you can use, greywater-harvesting outdoor shower & washing machine, solar oven, chickens, and bilingual educational signage.

This organization also provides many classes and hands-on workshops on harvesting the rain and other free, on-site waters; including free 3-hour courses required for the City of Tucson $1,000 greywater harvesting rebate and the $2,000 rainwater harvesting rebate.

Permitted site-built compost toilet at WMG
Photo: Brad Lancaster, 7-27-2018

Where:

1137 N Dodge Blvd, Tucson, AZ
32.23734888038085, -110.91346155462838

Cost: free

Hours: 9:30am-5pm Monday – Friday
Schedule tour at link below:
https://watershedmg.org/learn/classes/living-lab-tours

For more information on Watershed Management Group and their programs see here

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