This advanced permaculture program teaches you the principles of water harvesting that you can use to create functional site designs for water retention and greywater reuse landscapes.
Note: We encourage you to take the Permaculture Design Certificate Pro program before enrolling in this class so that you have a foundation in Permaculture Design that you can overlay this course content onto.
About the Permaculture Water Management Course
You will learn about the considerations for creating a Permaculture water retention and reuse landscape in your specific climate. Videos, articles, and exercises will help you understand the diverse applications of Permaculture water management and opportunities to integrate them into home-scale and broad-acre landscapes.
This program is under development and currently only offered as an introductory Self-Paced Course.
The Self-Paced course takes approximately 70 – 100 hours to complete, but you can take as long as you want and come back to it whenever you like. Additionally, you can always revisit and revise your assignment submissions to get additional practice and feedback.
Permaculture Water Management Self-Paced Course Description
This program teaches you about assessment, mapping and site designs for installing water retention landscapes using integrated water management strategies. It also introduces assessment and analysis of rainwater runoff patterns and calculation of runoff quantities and water usage amounts.
You will also cover rainwater harvesting cisterns, water harvesting earthworks, and their integration with greywater treatment, passive solar design, and planning for vegetation.
What You'll Learn
After completing this self-paced course, you'll be able to:
Define key rainwater harvesting concepts, terms and principles.
Understand the process of assessing and analyzing a site for rainwater harvesting.
Consider passive and active options for storing rainwater and recycling water in the landscape including earthworks, cisterns, and greywater systems.
Reflect on key considerations for hydrating landscapes in climates throughout the world.
This is a fully online course and requires a certain level of basic computer literacy to be successful. Please review this Required Hardware and Software page to make sure the course is feasible for you.
As part of the course, we use free online programs to do site analysis and create design reports. We provide instructions within the course, but familiarity with these programs prior to the course will enhance your experience and prepare you for the work:
A very limited number of scholarships are available. Preference is given to students who live in countries where the economy makes it very difficult to pay US prices, as well as those from disadvantaged communities. Applications are evaluated on a quarterly basis. Please submit them as soon as possible to be considered for the next round of scholarships.
Scholarship applicants must have completed the Introduction to Permaculture Courseor the OSU PDC PRO course and are required to upload their completed workbook or design report.
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