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Workshop for local planners and officials focuses on landscape conservation ordinances

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 29, 2008 at 6:04 am

From the San Bernardino Sun:

It’s time Southern California civic planners, city officials and residents rethink how they use water. In fact, water needs to a bigger part of every decision, said Brad Buller, a Rancho Cucamonga-based consultant specializing in municipal land and water uses. “About 70 percent of the water we use is put into our landscaping,” Buller said. “The state is going to tighten this up.”

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law in 2006 mandating that cities implement new landscape conservation ordinances to comply with strict water-saving standards by 2010. With that deadline fast-approaching, Cal State San Bernardino’s Water Resources Institute scheduled four educational sessions aimed at providing local city planners and staff with ideas and plans to meet new requirements.

The first informational session was held on Wednesday:

With cities scrambling for tactics to meet the coming toughened state requirements, water conservation experts hope laws help to usher in a new era of water conservation in a way that prices have not. While costs for energy, especially gasoline, have soared and made major dents in personal behavior and energy consumption, relatively cheap water bills provide little incentive to rein in use. “We know we don’t have water to waste,” WRI Director Susan Lien Longville said to about 20 people, mostly planners and other government staff from surrounding cities. “It’s all about changing (public) behavior.”

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May 29, 2008 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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One Response to “Workshop for local planners and officials focuses on landscape conservation ordinances”

Miguel Angel Vazquez on June 2nd, 2008 12:41 pm

Please provide me with the workshops schedule of information. I am very interested in getting involved.

Thank you

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