Living Water Wise Columns

Our partners and good friends at the Sacramento Zoo have joined the effort to save water right here in our state’s capitol.  The Sacramento Zoo practices innovative water conservation efforts including: using a filtration/recirculation and drip irrigation systems, using brooms to clean animal dens instead of hosing them down with water, providing animals with drinking water through Lixit systems instead of a water bowl, switching to high efficiency irrigation nozzles that use 35 percent less...

With the second half of the Major League Baseball season starting off strong in California, the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have joined forces with Save Our Water to encourage baseball fans to join the water conservation effort during California’s extraordinary drought. The Save Our Water campaign will run for the remainder of the 2014 season with water saving promotional messages on the teams’ English and Spanish radio networks...

As the California State Fair kicks off, Save Our Water is encouraging Californians to visit its displays featuring easy ways to save water inside and outside the home.  Staff from the Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be on hand to help attendees identify opportunities to conserve. Save Our Water displays have been popular at the State Fair for the last several years, but the extraordinary drought has brought water conservation to the top of mind for many Californians. This year, Save...

It is unlawful during the period May 1st to November 1st of each year for any person to use, permit or allow the use of water in any of the following manners:

Save Our Water is featured in the latest issue of Edible Sacramento (summer 2014) focusing on water conservation and drought awareness. By now, every Californian is well aware of the dry winter and spring seasons we’ve experienced; from Eureka to San Diego, Lake Tahoe to San Francisco, and of course right here in the Sacramento Valley. The article discusses the importance of understanding it will take all of us working together to get through the hot summer ahead by using simple ways to...

I’ve lived in San Joaquin valley all my life- and those of us who are natives have seen our share of drought years.