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Cristina Refolo

Jul 16, 2026

6:02
What's your experience, I suppose, more generally of those forgotten suds approaches?
6:07
Going back to the role of the landscape architect in nature-based solutions.
6:10
So the role is to capture water close to where it falls, and that means it's capturing through natural means and then letting it drain across the landscape.
6:20
Find a way to work with nature, with agriculture.
6:23
So we're going back, you know, even pre-Bronze Age, where because the settlements are a lot smaller, you can find already examples of water harvesting and collecting water, using it for irrigation, collecting it, finding way of using it close to where it falls.
6:40
Water management has always been something very much connected with religion, with climate, and with political power.
6:47
Go back to ancient Egyptians.

9 MINS LATER

15:42
So it would be remiss of me though not to ask you what some of the challenges are and that you've experienced as a landscape architect in terms of are SUDS applicable everywhere? Is sustainable drainage something that we should just be doing all the time, or what are some of the trade-offs, I guess? Where is this maybe not as rosy as it might currently sound?

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