DENVER — Rain in the forecast for the Mile High City is bringing relief to not only the environment, but also to local researchers who rely on the precipitation. The Water Technology Acceleration Platform (Water TAP) at CSU Spur is helping to serve as a platform to ‘launch new technologies and challenge new systems.’
Sarah Millonig, associate director at the CSU One Water Solutions Institute, explained they have a rainwater collection system that uses rooftop runoff for irrigation projects.
“So hopefully with what’s coming through today, we might get some water moving through this system,” said Millonig. “It’s collected here in the lab, but then it’s actually filtered and pumped and stored outdoors, and we use it for on-site irrigation of portions of our backyard, which features a lot of native plants and climate-adaptive plants.”
Denver7 has reported extensively on the drought impacting many parts of our state with extremely little snow and unusually high temperatures. Now with rain and potentially snow in the forecast for later this week, Millonig explained how these showers will help them…