Your personal resource for rainwater catchment and greywater recycling for your home.
Brook Sarson
H2OME Smart Water Savings, Owner
Permaculturist and Water EnthusiastBrook is owner and founder of H2OME, San Diego's first rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling installation business.
Offering consultations on water reuse and storage opportunities, H2OME provides a complete solution from consultation to installation, including passive and active rainwater harvesting and greywater use in conjunction with appropriate plantings and landscaping.
Brook's introduction into the intricacies of water issues happened three years ago after reading Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground an anthology on strategies for water sustainability from small-scale eco-technologies to global grassroots political movements. She then met authors Laura Allen and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, founders of Greywater Action (formerly known as the Greywater Guerillas) and quickly realized that she needed to take action in her desert city.
With no one in San Diego offering greywater installations or other water harvesting applications, Brook participated in a four-week intensive course presented by the Ecosa Institute in Arizona. There, she gained hands-on experience with the theory and practice of permaculture, water systems design and other aspects of sustainable living. Brook began to formulate a plan to create a resource in San Diego for the average citizen to achieve water sustainability. Working with Brad Lancaster in Tucson, Josh Robinson in Flagstaff and Andrew Millison in Prescott implementing water harvesting in many forms, she earned a Permaculture Certificate. The course also enabled her to gain the skills necessary to apply her passion and achieve her plan.
With no real resources for residents on personal water solutions, Brook intensified her education and began an apprenticeship at Seeds at City, a quarter acre organic, urban farm on the City College campus in the heart of downtown San Diego. Through this job training and leadership development program, she learned biointensive methods of organic gardening and farming.
Her dedication to saving water starts at home where she demonstrates her guiding principles through simple, cost effective and energy efficient methods. Her own urban farm features an edible garden, a 1,320 gallon rainwater tank plus bath and laundry greywater systems that enable her family to each use 75% less water daily than the average San Diegan.
Brook's vision for H2OME is to educate people about real yet simple solutions for the water crisis.
Brook graduated with a B.S. in in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She recently spent a month in Australia touring permaculture sites and working alongside aquaponics systems specialists and visiting with various sustainability experts including Michael Mobbs to learn real solutions. Currently, Brook is an instructer at Victory Gardens San Diego, a member of San Diego Roots - Sustainable Food Project, Food Not Lawns and The American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association.
Brook resides in San Diego with her two young sons, two cats and five egg-producing chickens.
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