SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio residents will soon see fewer watering restrictions as the San Antonio Water System moves out of Stage 3 drought rules.<\/p>\n
SAWS announced that Stage 2 watering rules will take effect Tuesday after recent rainfall pushed the Edwards Aquifer’s 10-day average above the Stage 3 trigger level of 640 feet above mean sea level.<\/p>\n
The change ends Stage 3 restrictions that had been in place since June 2024 and also eliminates Stage 3 drought surcharges for single-family households using more than 20,000 gallons of water per month.<\/p>\n
Stage 3 drought rules, combined with our diversified water resources, have helped us to weather this historic drought,” SAWS Conservation Director Martha Wright said in a statement. “Even under Stage 3, customers were able to water once a week, keeping their landscapes alive, while our community’s efforts protected our critical water supplies.<\/p>\n
Under Stage 2, residents can continue watering with irrigation systems, sprinklers or soaker hoses once a week between 5 and 10 a.m. or 9 p.m. and midnight on their designated watering day based on the last digit of their address:<\/p>\n
0 or 1: Monday2 or 3: Tuesday4 or 5: Wednesday6 or 7: Thursday8 or 9: Friday<\/p>\n
Watering with a hand-held hose remains allowed at any time on any day.<\/p>\n
SAWS encourages customers to continue using water wisely as drought conditions can quickly return despite recent rainfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 San Antonio residents will soon see fewer watering restrictions as the San Antonio Water System…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-393835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393835","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=393835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}