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Sustainable water management strategies center on integrating the water supply, stormwater management and "waste" water management functions. Our water resource exists within a closed system - called the hydrologic cycle - but traditional approaches used in residential and commercial developments "silo" the management of each of those functions into totally separate systems - water supply, stormwater, and wastewater. If we are to maximize the efficient and effective use of water, and so maximize sustainability of water resources, our management strategies must recognize that all water exists in the context of this closed system. We must therefore design our management approaches in accord with that understanding - as integrated systems, with the infrastructure that addresses each function being designed as an integrated component of an overall system. The simple schematic below compares a non-integrated - or "silo'd" - system with an integrated management system, illustrating how..