Communicate
Your homeowner or community association’s landscaping choices for community spaces represent a benefit to homeowners and reflect the entire community. Landscaping can provide a positive impression to visitors and has the ability to make one feel at home. A water-smart landscape is not only good for the environment, but it can ensure plant health and good aesthetics.
In order to make substantial changes in water use at your HOA, you may need to encourage support from your HOA Board and community members. To help, WaterSense created a template presentation on HOAs and Outdoor Water Use (pptx) , which includes information about why HOAs should be water-efficient and details on WaterSense resources that can help. This presentation can be given to HOA Board members during executive meetings or to all residents during HOA membership meetings.
Make sure to keep homeowners informed of any actions you plan to take via newsletters, your HOA website, HOA Board meetings, and any other methods of communication your HOA uses, so they can understand your water efficiency goals, how outdoor water-savings projects will impact your community, and can help support your efforts.
Following are tools to educate your homeowners, community, or Board of Directors on the importance and benefits of water conservation:
- Learn how water-smart landscapes can be beautiful and use less water with our landscaping tips.
- Check out WaterSense brochures, fact sheets, and mini reports to guide homeowners associations and their landscape contractors in maintaining water-efficient landscapes and irrigation systems.
- Learn about potential water savings when integrating a WaterSense labeled irrigation controller into landscapes.
- Get water smart by installing a WaterSense labeled spray sprinkler body.
- Spruce up your sprinkler system with these tips and resources.
- Water your landscapes less with these smart watering practices.
- Review these simple tips for saving water outdoors in the summer.
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