Trisha Macomber is a Big Island resident with a Master’s degree in public health/environmental science (MPH) and the author of Guidelines on Rainwater Catchment Systems for Hawaiʻi (order printed version or download pdf). She is an Educational Specialist for the University of Hawaiʻi’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources in the department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. The focus of her work is addressing the safe and practical usage rainwater catchment systems.
Trisha Macomber is also an accredited Rainwater Catchment Professional by the American Rainwater Catchment Systems association
Macomber’s work is recognized across the nation and internationally. She has been invited to speak on rainwater harvesting for various National and International organizations. She has held workshops in Palau, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Majuro and has been asked to assist with the US EPA Region 9 director’s meeting on rainwater catchment. She is on the board of the International and Hawaiʻi Rainwater Catchment Systems Associations and on various National Rainwater Harvesting committees.
Macomber has been awarded the 2003 Outstanding Service Award for the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and formally recognized by the Hawaiʻi Senate for her work on rainwater catchment. She has been given a meritorious service award by the International Rainwater Catchment Systems Association for her philanthropic volunteerism in promoting rainwater catchment systems as an ecological way of utilizing the world’s water.
Locally Macomber does community educational outreach programs, responds to questions by homeowners and professionals and provides inexpensive home water test kits and written materials.
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