Need a little help remembering which days to water? Pick up your outdoor watering schedule magnet at the Administrative office at 3701 Marconi Ave, Suite 100, Sacramento, during business hours. Put the magnet on your refrigerator as a helpful reminder.

Find out more about water conservation tips you can use inside and outside to help reduce water use. You can also download a pdf version of our water conservation brochure.

Outdoor Watering Schedule
Watering Your Lawn
Water-Wise House Call

Outdoor Watering Schedule

SSWD is committed to providing a high quality, reliable water supply to customers. To achieve this goal, the Board of Directors adopted a regulation that incorporates enforced water conservation measures. Water abuse will result in a fine or penalty. A crucial element of this regulation involves customer cooperation in managing water use. SSWD adheres to an odd/even watering schedule as follows:

• Addresses ending in odd numbers water Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
• Addresses ending in even numbers water Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
• No water on Monday.

To avoid peak energy hours and minimize evaporation, set your automatic landscape sprinkler times to operate during periods of low consumption between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Watering during this time reduces water loss due to evaporation. Avoid water use during the peak energy demand hours of 11:00a.m. through 7:00 p.m.

If you have manual sprinklers, water in the cool morning or evening hours. Set a timer to help you remember when to turn off your water.

Watering Your Lawn

Did you know that nearly half the summertime water used by local homes goes toward lawn watering? How often should you water your lawn? Learn more about weekly water run times based on your type of grass. more...(pdf 260 kb)

Taken from "Rules of Thumb for Water-Wise Gardening" (pdf 1,469 kb) - published by the Regional Water Authority (RWA).

Water-Wise House Call

Hose bibs can leak and setting an automatic sprinkler timer can be difficult - all of which can result in wasting our precious resource - water. By scheduling a Water-Wise House Call, you will better understand those potential problems. more...