{"id":216772,"date":"2026-03-23T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:51:08","slug":"austin-water-urges-residents-to-know-watering-day-cut-use-and-save-up-to-150-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216772\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Water urges residents to know watering day, cut use and save up to $150 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has arrived, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Water<\/a> is urging residents to \u201cknow your watering day\u201d \u2014 a move that can protect the region\u2019s water supply while also cutting monthly costs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Austin Water urges residents to know watering day, cut use and save up to $150 a month\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9f5a1f70-3c20-4ec1-bbb0-31dc4bc58330-Sprinkler.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Water urges residents to know watering day, cut use and save up to $150 a month<\/p>\n<p>Austin Water says reducing outdoor watering to once a week, instead of two or three times, can save the average household between 7,000 and 14,000 gallons each month \u2014 and up to $150 on a water bill.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s watering schedule is based on address numbers. Even-numbered addresses are assigned on Thursday as their watering day. Odd-numbered addresses are assigned on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Austin Water urges residents to know watering day, cut use and save up to $150 a month\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fb497066-32ed-42ad-8ac0-2800b0693c5f-WATERINGDAY.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Water urges residents to know watering day, cut use and save up to $150 a month<\/p>\n<p>Austin Water also says automatic and manual watering systems should only run during off-peak hours \u2014 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. \u2014 and not during the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond saving money, Austin Water says conservation reduces energy use and helps protect the community\u2019s water supply for the future.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at austinwater.org. Residents can also sign up for leak alerts, high-usage notifications, and more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/water\/programs\/my-atx-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">myatxwater.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spring has arrived, and Austin Water is urging residents to \u201cknow your watering day\u201d \u2014 a move that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-216772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}