Arizona Water Meter
Measuring Water Conservation Success
Seven principles for water conservation
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While the number of conservation measures is an important metric for assessing a water conservation program, it is also important to track and understand how successfully each conservation measure is received and implemented at the customer level. This kind of data is crucial for establishing the efficacy of conservation measures and provides important information when justifying water conservation programs during the budgeting process. Assessing programs allows utilities to make informed, cost-effective decisions by adapting their conservation programs to local circumstances and changing demands.
Phoenix excels at documenting and reporting the effectiveness of its 19 different water conservation programs. Generally speaking, providers who implement more conservation measures have more data to share and report. However, it is also possible that because these providers have done a better job at justifying and reporting successes from their programs, they were able to add more conservation measures over time.
This graph shows how many aspects of their water conservation programs various municipalities measure for success.