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Three Ways We Can
Help You Save Water
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Free Conservation
Literature
We offer free literature about gardening and home water
conservation. For information and to get answers to your
conservation questions contact the District Office.
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Water Audits
Receive a free water audit from the District. Just fill out a
simple form and an expert will analyze your water use,
suggesting ways to use water more efficiently without decreasing
comfort or landscape beauty.
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Water Conservation Garden
Most residential water is used outdoors. Visit our Water
Conservation Garden with landscaping techniques and choices that
are attractive and still save water.
Drought Alert
Our primary water sources—Lake Cachuma, Jameson
Lake and Fox and Alder Creeks—are currently diminished due to
lack of sufficient rainfall and runoff. Thus, we are using more
State Project Water this year and readying our limited
groundwater wells for possible activation.
Although
Montecito Water District has augmented its water supplies, there
is never enough water to waste.
All this has
turned the spotlight on the need for wise water use. We need
your help to use water efficiently, focusing on irrigation for
landscaping where most household water is used.
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Recent
Rains: Dry Year
Lessons learned
from devastating droughts of the importance of conserving water and
The District Is
Ensuring Long-Term
Supplies To Meet Customer Needs
 
Portfolio Of Water Supplies
For Water Reliability
Montecito Water District has made
significant investments to develop a diverse portfolio of water
supplies. If one or more supplies fall short due to drought,
facility breakdown, or emergency, another is available.
Water Management
Plan To Meet Customer Water Needs
Montecito Water
District’s Updated Urban Water Management Plan looks ahead 20 years
into the future, making projections about water supply and demand.
The purpose is to assure that we can meet customer water needs at
all times and under all conditions.
Community Plans Set Parameters
The District’s
Water demand forecasts are based on the Santa Barbara
County-prepared Montecito, Toro Canyon and Summerland Community
Plans, and the Local Coastal Plan. In response to a new state law,
Santa Barbara County will now permit second residential units on
certain parcels, and that may further increase the demand on
District water supplies.
Diversity of Water Sources Key To Success
Within parameters
set by community growth management plans, Montecito Water District
does water supply planning. Maintaining a diversity of sources is
the key to assuring water supply reliability. |
