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Pasco County highlights conservation, rebates as dry season begins
Summary
Pasco County water officials used a county podcast to urge residents to conserve water ahead of the dry season, describe rebate programs funded with the regional water management district, and promote technologies such as weather-based irrigation controllers and water-saving toilet inserts.
On a recent Pasco County podcast, county and regional water officials urged residents to conserve water as the dry season approaches and outlined rebate programs and technologies to lower household and commercial water use.
On the Pasco podcast, Mike Carballa, host, said water conservation is timely with the dry season beginning and World Water Day approaching. Phoenix McKinney, Pasco County water conservation coordinator, and Amelia Brown, program manager for Tampa Bay Water, described conservation strategies, incentive programs and new technologies that can reduce demand on potable supplies.
The officials emphasized irrigation as the single largest source of avoidable household water use. McKinney said many irrigation systems are “not efficiently designed” or maintained and that homeowners frequently “set it and forget it,” causing overwatering. Brown noted that weather-based irrigation controllers and properly zoned systems can…
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