Cut Your Water Use, and Cut
Your Water Bills
Saving water is more important than ever, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is asking everyone to help the
region’s water supply by cutting water use. Through MWD’s Save Water, Save A Buck Program, Southern California businesses and multi-family
property owners are eligible for generous rebates to help encourage water efficiency and conservation.
The Save A Buck program offers cash rebates on a wide variety of water-saving technologies for outdoor landscaping.
Devices available for rebates include:
Weather Based and Central Computer Irrigation Controllers - $25 or more per station based on controller capacity
Rotating Spray Nozzle retrofits for pop-up spray heads
- $4 or more per head
High Efficiency Nozzle retrofits for large rotary sprinklers
- $13 or more per set
Synthetic Turf - $0.30 or more per square foot
Licensed contractors are now eligible to receive the rebate directly for installing water conserving measures on their commercial customer’s properties.
Landscape Contractor Guidelines
Landscape water usage can account for over 50% of your water use
Conservation is a basic element of Metropolitan’s long-term water management strategy. Our expanding commitment has resulted in many water-saving opportunities throughout Southern California.
In hot, dry areas, landscape irrigation can account for as much as 50 percent of the summer water use for commercial properties. Metropolitan’s conservation programs feature new outdoor water-saving actions that encourage consumers to tune up their irrigation systems and to consider native and California Friendly plants for their landscaping choices. When it comes to saving water, Metropolitan has led the way with new technologies and some of the most innovative conservation programs in the nation.
The Save Water, Save A Buck program allows commercial, industrial and institutional customers as well as multi-family property owners throughout Metropolitan’s territory to install water conserving devices with the use of attractive rebates to encourage companies to cut their water use.
Landscape water use conservation methods
There are many methods that can reduce the amount of water used in a landscape and still maintain the health, appearance and function of the landscape. Here are just a few:
- Water-efficient landscape designs using low water-use plants
- Efficient irrigation systems
- Minimized turf areas
- Soil improvements and mulch
- Regular maintenance of irrigation systems
- Regular adjustment of irrigation controllers
- Scheduling irrigation during early or late hours
- Dedicated landscape water meters for monitoring of water budget and leak detection
- Conformance to local or the State Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance
- Education of employees regarding the importance of efficient water use
- Coordinate efforts with local water agency for incentives, rebates and planning programs
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