Stage 2 watering rules will go in effect Aug. 4<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014San Antonio Water System (SAWS) will end Stage 3 watering rules effective Tuesday, Aug. 4, in accordance with City of San Antonio ordinances and SAWS Utility Service Regulations. Stage 2 watering rules will take effect at that time.<\/p>\n
Recent rainfall has raised the Edwards Aquifer\u2019s 10-day average above the Stage 3 trigger level of 640 feet mean sea level (msl), ending watering rules that have been in place since June 2024. That means Stage 3 drought surcharges will be discontinued for single-family household water use over 20,000 gallons per month.<\/p>\n
\u201cStage 3 drought rules, combined with our diversified water resources, have helped us to weather this historic drought,\u201d said SAWS Conservation Director Martha Wright. \u201cEven under Stage 3, customers were able to water once a week, keeping their landscapes alive, while our community\u2019s efforts protected our critical water supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under Stage 2 watering rules, landscape watering with an irrigation system, sprinkler or soaker hose is permitted once a week between 5 and 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. and midnight on the designated watering day based on the last digit of a customer\u2019s address:<\/p>\n
0 or 1: Monday
\n2 or 3: Tuesday
\n4 or 5: Wednesday
\n6 or 7: Thursday
\n8 or 9: Friday<\/p>\n
Watering with a hand-held hose is still allowed at any time on any day.<\/p>\n
SAWS\u2019 long-term investments in diversified water supplies \u2013 including the nation\u2019s largest groundwater-based Aquifer Storage and Recovery facility and the desalination plant \u2013 have helped San Antonio avoid the more severe drought watering rules experienced by other communities across the region.<\/p>\n
To help customers continue conserving water, SAWS offers a variety of water-saving programs, coupons and rebates. This year, customers can receive up to $600 in SAWS coupons<\/a> to replace water-intensive grass with a drought-tolerant, water-saving landscape.<\/p>\n San Antonio Water System provides water and wastewater services to more than 2 million customers in the San Antonio region and continues to set the standard for service and water conservation within our industry. SAWS is the national leader in water innovation with the largest direct recycled water system in the country, a state-of-the-art inland desalination plant, and the largest groundwater-based Aquifer Storage & Recovery facility in the nation. For more information, visit www.saws.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 2 watering rules will go in effect Aug. 4 SAN ANTONIO \u2014San Antonio Water System (SAWS) will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,138781,138782,138783,138784],"class_list":["post-394369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-stage-2","tag-stage-3-end","tag-watering-days","tag-watering-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394369","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=394369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}