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Water Systems Design, Advocacy + Stewardship
Mission Statement
Water is the interconnection among all living beings. A sacred resource and transformative element in all landscapes. By integrating local climate, soil systems, and plant ecology, we design water systems that help sites not only establish, but flourish over time. We believe that resilient environments are best shaped by thoughtful water stewardship - steering us toward regenerative practices that improve the well-being of both landscapes and the life forms that inhabit them.
Our Approach
Water is Sacred
Water is a living connection that sustains, shapes, and binds all life, carrying both memory and possibility through every system it touches. To honor water as sacred is to move from "control of" to "relationship with." It is a client we take time to listen to, and we aim to create spaces in which we can honor its story.
Water as Transformative Infrastructure
We approach irrigation as a vital layer of landscape performance—supporting plant health, ecological function, and the long-term resilience of a place.
Water Stewardship = Conservation + Design
Our work balances water conservation with the needs of living landscapes. We ensure systems are both water-smart and supportive of healthy soil and plant communities.
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Collaborative Design
We work closely with land managers, landscape architects, engineering teams and municipalities to address needs specific to each project and site. We use our expertise and creativity to integrate water systems seamlessly into project design.
Services
Irrigation Strategy + Design
We design irrigation systems tailored to plant communities, soil conditions, and climate.
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Irrigation plan set
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Hydrozones diagram
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Equipment schedule
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Details & specs
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Water use calculations
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Water Performance Review
We investigate existing conditions and develop strategies to reduce water use while supporting healthy landscape establishment.
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Site audits and water-saving retrofit design
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Third-party irrigation system audit review and reporting
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MWELO Compliance Packages
We develop a comprehensive set of documentation required by California's Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance, demonstrating that landscape and irrigation systems meet all regulatory standards.
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Water budget calculations
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MAWA/ETWU sheets
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Irrigation efficiency documentation
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Plan check support
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Technical Documentation + Construction Support
We produce construction documentation and provide support to landscape architects, civil engineers, and public agencies through all phases of construction.
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RFI and submittal reviews
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Site visits
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As-built reviews
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Water Activation and Advocacy
We invite communities to reawaken their relationship with water - not as a resource to be managed, but as living relative to be honored, listened to, and cared for. Through community engagement, education, and site-based experiences, we bring intention into designing with water, recognizing that it carries memory, energy, and possibility.
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Community workshops on water literacy, ecological systems, and water-wise design
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Site-based engagement sessions that explore how water moves through a landscape
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Collaborative design facilitation rooted in listening to water and place
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Water-focused storytelling, interpretation, and public-facing materials
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Ritual-informed gatherings (such as reflection, song, or prayer) to deepen relational understanding of water​
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Jess Rozul is the Director of Water Systems Design for Hydroscape and has been leading the in-house irrigation design work at BASE since 2021. She is a Certified Irrigation Designer (CID), Certified Irrigation Auditor (CLIA), Certified QWEL practitioner, and member of IA and ASLA. She uses her knowledge of native ecosystems and resource conservation to ensure thriving, MWELO-compliant landscapes in every project.
Featured Projects
Water Acknowledgement
Water is the first language of life.
It moves through every living system - river, root, blood, breath - connecting all beings in a continuous cycle of renewal. Long before we learned to shape landscapes or build cities, water was shaping us; carving valleys, sustaining ecosystems, and teaching us the rhythms of balance, patience, and flow.
To call water sacred is to recognize that it is not a resource to be used, but a relationship to be honored. It carries memory, nourishes possibility, and holds the quiet power to heal - both land and community. Every drop is a part of a larger story, one that reminds us we belong to earth, not the other way around.
When we treat water as sacred, we design differently. We listen more closely. We restore what has been broken. And in doing so, we begin to remember our responsibility - not just to manage water, but to protect and revere the systems that sustain all life.
Water Drops
Water drops fall from the sky
Rolling over the terrain
They collide, they gather,
They combine forming bigger drops
They accumulate, and as they move they gain power
Their nature urges them to seep, moisten the soil,
To permeate, soak, wash and humidify
The excess forms creeks and rivers
Over the path of less resistance
Bountiful nature exudes as they ride along
When a satin urban layer of imperviousness
Drapes the land, they lose space to move
And to sing like a nightingale
This is when they gather and flood,
If they move fast, they erode, they swallow
They destroy, they become uncontrollable
Murkiness and gloom humbles everybody
These waters want their freedom
These drops want to sway over the landscape
With no refrain and no disdain from humanity
Poem by Cesar Morán Cahusac
Water transforms landscapes. We design the systems that help them thrive.
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