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Jul 16, 2026
SUDS - Forgotten Methods & New Approaches
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6:02Niki RoachHOST
What's your experience, I suppose, more generally of those forgotten suds approaches?

Cristina RefoloGUEST
Going back to the role of the landscape architect in nature-based solutions.

Cristina RefoloGUEST
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.

Cristina RefoloGUEST
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.

Cristina RefoloGUEST
Water management has always been something very much connected with religion, with climate, and with political power.
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15:42Niki RoachHOST
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?