By PE News
Western Municipal Water District in Riverside is throwing almost $500,000 at its rebate program in hopes of further boosting conservation.
The incentives are available to residential and commercial customers in the district’s service area, which includes Riverside, Jurupa, Norco, Corona, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta and Temecula.
The aim is to reduce reliance on imported water supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which have been severely curtailed because of environmental concerns, said Tim Barr, the agency’s water use efficiency manager. The money will be added to rebates offered by Metropolitan Water District’s SoCal Water$mart program (www.socalwatersmart.com ).
The new incentives for retail customers are: $150 for high-efficiency toilets or clothes washers, which is added to MWD’s $50 rebate; $120 for weather-based irrigation controllers, in addition to MWD’s $80 rebate; and 30 cents per square foot for synthetic turf.
—Janet Zimmerman
jzimmerman@PE.com
