Becoming one with nature: New Wimberley ISD campus to include self-sustaining technologies

The future of water conservation efforts in Texas might lie in a new Wimberley campus, which aims to conserve the resource through self-sustaining technologies. 

Wimberley ISD officials are calling the new primary school the “One Water School.” When it opens in fall 2020, the campus will reduce groundwater usage from the Trinity Aquifer by 90 percent of what a traditional primary school would use.

Water conservation groups and Wimberley ISD officials are calling the project an engineering marvel. The campus will include its own wastewater treatment center and will be fully equipped with a rainwater collection system that will help fuel the school with its water needs.