If you covered a football field with one foot of water, it would be about 325,851 gallons. This volume of water is also referred to as one acre-foot. An average quarter acre lot uses over one acre foot of water in a season for landscape irrigation, but only requires less than ½ an acre foot to maintain it to the high standard that is expected.

Use a water-efficient showerhead. They’re inexpensive, easy to install, and can save you up to 750 gallons a month.

Turn off the water while you brush your teeth and save 4 gallons per minute. That amounts to 200 gallons a week for a family of four.

Avoid watering when it is windy.

Water dry or brown spots in your lawn by hand with a hose rather than running your sprinkler system. This will take care of the brown spot while saving thousands of gallons in not overwatering the rest of the entire lawn to take care of the same brown spot.

Saturday, August 21st Noon-1:30 am; Free class “Provident Gardening” Joy Bossi

(For a full class schedule and other water conservation information go to www.weberbasin.com. Classes are located at Weber Basin Water Conservancy District’s Learning Garden located at 2837 E. Highway 193 in Layton)