New House New Paradigm:
A Model for How to Plan, Build, and Live Water-smart
Links to model communities:
- Civano Arizona
- Daybreak Utah
- Oshara Village New Mexico
- Rancho Viejo New Mexico
- Stapleton Colorado
- Sterling Ranch Colorado
The Intermountain West is the driest region of the United States, and it is also the region that experienced the most explosive growth over the past decade. Though many western rivers already have more claims upon their flows than there is water flowing in them, the pace of development continues unabated. In the report New House, New Paradigm, Western Resource Advocates provides an innovative take on how new housing development should proceed: water conservation and efficiency must be built-in to the process of planning, building, and living in new communities in the West.
Water conservation is not new to the West. What is new is a coordinated effort throughout the development process to create and inhabit communities that are designed to abide with the region's lack of water. A number of community developments have already taken this approach and their success serves as a model for future development. New House, New Paradigm shows why their approach is succeeding and how other planned developments can learn from these models.
- New House, New Paradigm executive summary(0.4MB .pdf file)
- New House, New Paradigm full report (3MB .pdf file)