[Inspired]

I know most of you are not thinking about landscape irrigation right now. However I ran across some interesting information. Apparently California soon will be budgeting the amount of water residents and commercial property owners may use for landscape irrigation. They are basing their calculations on a system efficiency of 71% along with an ET factor of .7 to come up with the budget amounts.

Although the ET rate sound a little high for California, it is definitely a more intelligent approach then offering a home owner a rebate to install and automatic controller (that they set and forget about). It might force a higher level of education and professionalism on our part as an industry to help homeowners and commercial property owners stay within water budget compliance.

I’m thinking this will spread to other states eventually (if it hasn’t already) as water conservation becomes a more important issue.

Good – bad? What do you guys think?

Here is the link
Updated Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance

[h20saver]

Thanks for posting that document. Wow. That's a lot of regulation. How much is it going to cost to put in a landscape in 2010 in California?

I guess they can't just up the water rates, (well they will be doing that also) but you'd think some kind of tiered water rate would be more efficient.

Looks like Landscape Architect will be a good future career.

h20,