Outdoor Water Budgeting

Last Update August 22, 2025
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About This Course

This Course provides a practical overview of how to calculate and manage water use in landscapes. Learn the fundamentals of plant water requirements, evapotranspiration, and hydrozoning, then explore tools such as the Maximum Applied Water Allowance (MAWA) and the Estimated Total Water Use (ETWU). Participants will practice calculating water budgets, factoring in effective precipitation, and identifying strategies to minimize water use while maintaining healthy landscapes.

Learning Objectives

Understand Hydrozoning, Plant Water Requirements, and Landscape Water Requirements.
Re-imagine the landscape as we make Conservation a Way of Life.
Incorporate strategies such as very low water requirement planting palettes, changing from spray to drip irrigation, running sections of the landscape on rainwater alone, and creating permeable hardscape that doubles as water-catchment areas.

Material Includes

  • Video - Outdoor Water Budgeting
  • Workbook
  • Quiz
  • Certificate of Completion

Requirements

  • You'll need to take the quiz in order to download the Certificate of Completion

Target Audience

  • Landscape Professionals
  • Water Conservation
  • Water Quality
  • Non-Profit
  • Environmental Consulting

Curriculum

5 Lessons3h

Video – Outdoor Water Budgeting

Understanding Plant Water Requirements, Landscape Water Requirements and the Role of Rainwater in Irrigation is key to successfully managing our water resources
Video – Outdoor Water Budgeting2:36:57
Video – Questions and Answers00:00:00

Outdoor Water Budgeting – Workbook

Click on 'exercise files' to download copy of workbook.

Outdoor Water Budgeting – Quiz

Take this quiz to see what you've learned. Once you've completed the quiz you can download your Certificate of Completion

Certificate of Completion – Water Budgeting

Once you've completed the webinar and completed the quiz you can download this Certificate of Completion to be used for CEUs. Click on 'Exercise Files' to access the Certificate.

Your Instructors

Pamela Berstler

CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group

5.0/5
22 Courses
1 Reviews
214 Students

Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.

Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.

Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.

Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.

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Marianne Simon

Instructor

5.0/5
34 Courses
1 Reviews
234 Students

Marianne was born to a family of artists and has spent her life exploring creativity in its many facets. In 1999 she discovered the world of landscaping and a new way of expressing herself. With a degree in landscape architecture, she joined G3, Green Gardens Group managing 'groundbreaking' programs, teaching and spreading the word about watershed-wise landscaping, and doing all she can to shift the pendulum back towards a healthy planet.

As current CEO of Watershed Wise, LLC, G3’s sister company, she produces and manages the on-demand content.

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$15.00

Level
Intermediate
Duration 3 hours
Modules
5 lectures

Material Includes

  • Video - Outdoor Water Budgeting
  • Workbook
  • Quiz
  • Certificate of Completion
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