Water Budgets, Not Water Rationing*

R1

Continue to emphasize methods and availability of tools that assist the customers in understanding weather-based irrigation practices by: Providing a hotline for assisting the public with landscape and irrigation information Providing a countywide soil texture map on the MWDOC website Developing an Orange County specific water calculator on the MWDOC website The Recommendation has been implemented with respect to the matters Response: within the control of the responding agency. YLWD presently provides a contact number for a staff member to assist its customers with landscape and irrigation information; that staff member's phone and email information is made available on YLWD's website. YLWD also provides landscaping tips, a general watering calculator, and a link to Metropolitan Water District's watering calculator at www.bewaterwise.com on its website. With respect to the recommendations outside respondent YLWD's control, YLWD does not object to respondent MWDOC providing a countywide soil texture map on the MWDOC website and developing an Orange County specific water calculator on the MWDOC website. YLWD understands that MWDOC has committed to accomplish these tasks with planned implementation on or before November 20, 2008.