Project Principles:
Re-Localize Watersheds
Re-Plenish Fresh Water
Re-Power with Tides
Re-Grow the Land

Project Description:
It is naive to focus on RISING TIDES as the most significant outcome of climate change. Rising tides are merely one symptom of a more daunting WATER CRISIS. The threat of rising tides can provide a catalyst which leads us to comprehensively RE-BALANCE the water system in CALIFORNIA AND BEYOND. Our 100 YEAR PLAN is political first and foremost. It advocates for an ambitious policy-based TOOLKIT that trades the “watershed hopping” method of massive water transport (which is energy intensive and environmentally destructive) for a more localized approach. We propose fresh water via sustainable desalination and water recycling programs along with tidal marsh regeneration, powered and protected by RISING TIDES over the course of the next 100 years.

Derek James Hoeferlin, Architect (co-lead design + production)
Ian Caine (co-lead design + production)
Michael Heller (Research Assistant)