Essentials of Water Management
Essentials of Water Management
Reduce Your Outdoor Water Use
The average American family uses 320 gallons of water per day, about 30 percent of which is devoted to outdoor uses. More than half of that outdoor water is used for watering lawns and gardens. Nationwide, landscape irrigation is estimated to account for nearly one-third of all residential water use, totaling nearly 9 billion gallons per day. Experts have shown that as much as 50 percent of water used for irrigation is lost or wasted due to evaporation, wind, or runoff and by inefficient irrigation methods and systems.
Methods to Reduce Water Waste and Improve Efficiency
- Frequency - It’s often not necessary to water grass every day. Instead, test your lawn by stepping on a patch of grass; if it springs back, it doesn’t need water.
- Timeframe – Water in the early morning and minimize evaporation.
- Plant Selection – chose native plants for your landscape. They require little water beyond normal rainfall.
- Reduce waste and improve the efficiency of your sprinkler system. Hire Jetstream to:
- Open and inspect your system each season – our technicians are trained to locate small, sometimes imperceptible leaks and sprinkler heads with leaking seals that can go unnoticed indefinitely. What’s more, proper scheduling and a mid season check will keep things running smoothly (and catch small issues before they grow).
- Install an Automatic Rain Shut Off device. Every person with a system should have one. For about $100, Jetstream will install this simple device to eliminate watering on rain days immediately saving you about 10% of your sprinkler water.
- Install a WiFi weather-based controller. Your existing controller, while effective at turning things “off and on,” is no match for the Hunter® Hydrawise® WiFI Controller. It collects real time weather forecasts and adjusts your sprinkler settings up or down, AUTOMATICALLY.
- This impressive advancement in sprinkler technology can help you reduce sprinkler system water consumption by 40%. – Learn more
- Replace old and/or antiquated sprinkler heads that have leaking seals, cracked risers or poor and coarse watering patterns.
- Install highly efficient Hunter MP Rotator sprinkler heads in place of the popular but water wasting “mist head.”
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