Saving Water With a Landscape Water Conservation Rebate Program

Abstract

Key TakeawaysIn response to severe drought in the state of California, local, regional, and state water agencies implemented rebate programs to encourage reductions in water use.The Valley Water Landscape Rebate Program encourages residents and businesses to convert high‐water‐use landscape to approved low‐water‐use landscape, and to retrofit existing irrigation equipment with approved high‐efficiency irrigation equipment.Significant and ongoing water savings can be achieved by rebate programs for turf removal, weather‐based irrigation controllers, and high‐efficiency sprinkler nozzles.