Each of us should do our part to save water. Water is a necessary element in the sustenance of life. It becomes a strong issue in areas where there isn’t enough clean and sanitary water for people to drink. You have to admit we take a lot for granted

As the days get shorter and they are not as intense we don’t have the evaporation by the sun like we did during the long hot summer days. Plants don’t require as much water to stay healthy.

After reading this article, take a walk around your neighborhood and pay attention to the water usage of your neighbors. You’ll see there are all kinds of habits they have gotten into. Some leave their sprinkler timers set the same spring, fall, winter, and summer which means in cooler weather a lot to water is being wasted.

You can save a lot of water by adjusting your sprinkler timer according to the needs of your yard, and especially if you have a meter you’re being billed for every drop of water that you are using.

Plants can be trained to push the roots deeper by deep watering and even lawns can be trained to not require as much water as we think they should have.

Cities in areas of the country that have to be irrigated in order to raise plants and lawns generally have restrictions on the amount of water you can use, these restrictions are enforced.

Contact your water supplier, whether it is the local water district or your city water department to see what mandates they have set for scheduled water days. Water Day schedules most of the time, use the even number odd number, to determine what days you can water.

After you’ve made the necessary adjustments to your sprinkler timer to set it for the allowed watering days go through each sprinkler zone and adjust the run time for the plant material you are applying water on. Most new sprinkler timers allow you to set multiple watering cycles. By setting multiple cycles you can put less time on each cycle and allow the water to soak in rather than run off.

Another way to reduce your water usage is to just walk around your yard and identify the areas where there is being too much water applied by your sprinklers. Make the necessary adjustments by changing the nozzle or repairing broken heads.

As you begin repairing your lawn, and planting new shrubs in the fall hand water them so you don’t have to run the complete zones.