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Austin Water reports Q2 2025 progress on conservation, AMI portal and reclaimed-water programs
Summary
Austin Water staff presented the utility’s Q2 2025 implementation report, updating commissioners on conservation programs, leak detection and reclaimed‑water projects and previewing supply planning such as aquifer storage and recovery and emergency indirect potable reuse planning.
Austin Water staff presented the utility’s quarterly implementation report for the second quarter of 2025 (April–June), updating the Water and Wastewater Commission on conservation programs, leak detection and reclaimed-water efforts and previewing near-term supply strategies.
The briefing, presented by Kevin Crittendon, assistant director, and Kevin Kluge, water conservation division manager, summarized Q2 milestones that followed City Council direction from the Water Forward plan, the Water Conservation Plan and the Drought Contingency Plan. Staff said April and May were dry and noted that program activity and outreach picked up in the spring.
Key items staff reported: - Plumbing and building code changes: On April 10 City Council approved the updated uniform plumbing code with three local amendments that include (1) additional pressure‑regulating devices on new irrigation systems, (2) a limit that new automatic irrigation systems may serve no more than 50% of a new lot’s landscape area, and (3) required plumbing to…
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