We Passed an Ordinance, Now What? Peer City Approaches to Monitoring and Enforcement - NTOWS 2020
Channel: Texas Living Waters Project
Date: 2020-11-12

Holly Holt-Torres, Water Conservation Manager at Dallas Water Utilities and Andrew Cummings, Environmental Affairs Manager at New Braunfels Utilities discuss their city's approach to monitoring and enforcing outdoor watering ordinances.


The session was part of the North Texas Outdoor Watering Summit, an initiative of the Texas Living Waters Project and the National Wildlife Federation. The summit was a three-day virtual conference featuring peer-to-peer learning and expert technical assistance for cities and utilities interested in implementing or adapting programs to reduce outdoor watering.

Smart, practical outdoor watering schedules are the most cost-effective tool Texas utilities have to deal with the coming decades of unprecedented population growth. While the immediate focus was on North Texas, presentations and resources were pitched towards any utility interested in implementing or improving programs to reduce outdoor watering.

You can find more presentations and resources from the summit at https://texaslivingwaters.org/conference-materials-and-presentations/2020-north-texas-outdoor-watering-summit/