Redwood City Helps Large Landscape-Irrigation Customers Conserve

摘要

In 2001, Redwood City launched an aggressive water conservation program aimed at helping its large landscape irrigation customers. Since that time, Redwood City has developed individualized water budgets for all of its landscape irrigation customers and provides this information to them as part of a water conservation education program. This program saves approximately 15 percent of the total water used by this class of customers.rnRedwood City also recently implemented a Water Allocation Program for this same customer class, which combines the individual water budgets with a new set of landscape irrigation rates to provide an even greater incentive for these customers to conserve. Though this program is relatively new and the savings have not yet been measured, the program has the potential to save as much as 30 percent of total water use for this customer class -about 140 million gallons per year.