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Announcing CCWD's Lawn to Garden Rebate Program Amount Increase

Get reimbursed for converting your backyard lawn to a water-wise garden—and receive more than ever before!

Contra Costa Water District has updated the Lawn to Garden Rebate Program to encourage participation and help customers save even more water. The Law...

Rain Gardens

Rain that falls on your home and yard, when captured, is a free and local supply of water that can save you money and help stretch Contra Costa Water District’s limited water supply. Each gallon you capture and use on your property is a gallon saved in lo...

New Year’s Water Resolution

This year, resolve to manage your water use

As you ponder what’s ahead in 2023, consider a simple and sustainable New Year’s resolution to use less water. With any New Year’s resolution, the most challenging part can sometimes be just getting started. That...

2023 Drought Outlook and New Year's Water Resolutions - WaterSaver Newsletter

As you ponder what’s ahead in 2023, consider a simple and sustainable New Year’s resolution to use less water. With any New Year’s resolution, the most challenging part can sometimes be just getting started. We're here to help with a free, online tool.

Drought Tips for Indoor Water Use - WaterSaver Newsletter

As winter and the holiday season approach, California water providers are bracing for what could be the fourth dry year in a row. Your conservation efforts are helping and the need continues to conserve in Contra Costa. See our drought tips for indoors.

Automated Smart Leak Detection

Invest in a Flume Smart Home Water Monitor to help you manage, monitor, and conserve our most precious resource. Flume can help you:

• Catch water leaks, protect your home, and set leak alerts
• Monitor water use down to the minute and by fixture
• Set personalize...

Fall into savings this fall! - WaterSaver Newsletter

This issue includes helpful information about irrigation controllers, protecting trees, pool covers, and more!

Drought-Proof Your Yard Workshop Series

Contra Costa Water District is co-sponsoring a webinar series with Sustainable Contra Costa designed to help you take your landscape to the next level. Your yard can be drought-tolerant, beautiful, habitat-rich and inviting.

Caring for Trees in a Drought

We need trees and trees need water. Mulching and low flow watering keep trees thriving. Learn more about helping your trees thrive in a drought from Save Our Water.

Read on...

July is Smart Irrigation Month

The Irrigation Association designates July, which is historically the hottest month of the year, as Smart Irrigation Month. With the current drought, and as we enter the hottest summer months, smart irrigation is the one of the best ways to save water. Fi...

Steps to Conserve During this Drought

Read our latest conservation and water efficiency newsletter with tips on how to survive the drought. Plus, get details on all the best rebates to help you plan for the summer months.

Fix Leaks Around Your Home

Leaks are often the cause of high water bills. The US EPA’s annual Fix a Leak Week, March 14-20, 2022, is a great reminder of how important it is to check for leaks around your home. According to the US EPA, the average household's leak...

Spring 2022 Water-Wise Landscaping Webinar Series

Now is the perfect time to make your landscape more resilient to drought! We has an upcoming series of landscaping webinars in March and April 2022 to help customers with landscape water efficiency improvements and how to create a water-wise garden.

This New Year, Let's Resolve to Conserve in Contra Costa

With the ongoing drought across California, water conservation should be on everyone’s list of New Year’s resolutions. And of all the resolutions on your list, you might find conserving water is the easiest one to keep! Learn how with My Water Report.

‘Tis the Season to Conserve

The holidays are here and as community health restrictions ease, you probably have a lot on your mind as you consider playing host to friends and family. Here’s another thing you’ll want to consider: increased water use. During this time of year, the aver...

During this Drought, Let’s Conserve in Contra Costa

Read our latest conservation and water efficiency newsletter with tips to survive the drought, whether it's indoors or outdoors. Also, get the scoop on our latest rebate to help you track your water use.

Fall Watering and Landscaping Tips

After warm, dry summer months, be sure to adjust your watering schedule into the fall so you don’t overwater. Also, check out our step-by-step guide on planning a landscape project to help customers from start to finish.

Water Wise House Calls Available Indoors Again

Get free customized advice from our water efficiency experts on how to check for leaks, manage your water use, and save water. 

• Water Wise House Calls – For residential customers.
• Water Use Evaluations – For multi-famil...

New Rebate for Flume Smart Home Water Monitor

Get a $100 instant rebate when you purchase a Flume Smart Home Water Monitor that can measure real-time water use, provide leak alerts, and help you manage your indoor and landscape water use.

Dry Year Update

Check out the latest conservation newsletter with a dry year update, ways to help you prepare for summer, and upcoming virtual events you don't want to miss!

It’s a Dry Year in California: What You Need to Know

The typically cool and wet months are making way for warmer weather without much rain or snow to show for it. By early April, precipitation in the Northern Sierra was just over 50% of average for that time of year. The dry year meant Contra Costa Water Di...