In response to improved regional water resource conditions, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) today modified emergency water restrictions across most of the agency’s 16-county region, transitioning from one-day-per-week landscape irrigation restrictions to two-day-per-week watering.
Landscape irrigation accounts for up to half of all household water consumption in Florida. The District’s nine-member Governing Board adopted a “Modified Phase II Severe Water Shortage Order,” effective April 18, instituting an up to two-day-a-week watering schedule for residential landscape irrigation. The schedule will continue conserving regional water supplies as part of the District’s response to the regional rainfall deficit.
It’s important to note that SFWMD is not lifting emergency restrictions. Its decision to modify the restrictions is based on the improved conditions of our water resources, as well as the help and cooperation of citizens, businesses, utilities, local governments and farms embracing water conservation. The District has also used deliberate and proactive water management to help retain as much water in the system as possible over the past year.
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