Conservation Links

Homeowners

Virtual Home Tour: Take the tour to investigate water saving opportunities in each area of your home!

Water Calculator: Estimate your home water use and see how you compare.

Community

• Sustainable Fairfax: Neighborhood Conservation Pilot Program

Recycling

• Marin Recycles

Indoor/Outdoor

• Alliance for Water Efficiency Resource Library

Indoors

• Toiletology 101
• Plumbing Care and Repair Handbook
• EcoHome: Flush with Options

Outdoors

• 10,000 Rain Gardens Project
• Bay-Friendly Landscaping & Gardening Coalition
• Bay-Friendly Gardening Video: Convert Your Lawn by Sheet Mulching
• Marin Master Gardeners
• Marin Master Gardeners/MMWD Bay-Friendly Garden Walk
• Marin Master Gardeners e-Newsletter, the Leaflet
• Water Wise Gardening: Sonoma and Marin Counties
• Video Introduction to How to Use the “Water Wise Gardening” Website
• How to Set Your Irrigation Clock (how-to videos from the Southern Nevada Water Authority)
• Wateright: Irrigation Scheduling Tutorial 
• Bay Nature Magazine: Soil Matters
• Plants and Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates  
• Water Wise Gardens of CA 
• Mediterranean Climate Gardening 
• Ruth Bancroft Garden website 
• CA Native Plant Society 
• Be Water-Wise 
• American Water Works Association: WaterWiser 
• CIMIS - Daily Reports 
• CIMIS - Info Center 
• EcoHome: Right as Rain
• California Landscape Contractors Association’s Contractor Search
• Daily Water Budget Model

Pools 

• Before Draining Your Pool... 
• Water Conservation Tips for Pools & Spas

Resources

• The Water Page

Professionals

• Irrigation Association
• Center for Irrigation Technology
• Irrigation Training and Resource Center
• Wateright Tutorials
• Water Use Classification of Landscape Species (WUCOLS)
• Irrigation & Green Industry Newsletter
• California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS)
• California Landscape Contractors Association Water Management Certification Program

Conservation Planning at MMWD

Learn more about what MMWD is doing to achieve our conservation goals.

• Conservation Action Committee
• Fact Sheet: Conservation Program Update, September 2010
• 2009 Conservation Summit 
• 2009 Maddaus Report
• 2007 Water Conservation Master Plan  
• 2007 Water Conservation Master Plan - Appendix A  
• 2007 Water Conservation Master Plan - Appendix B  
• 2007 Water Conservation Master Plan - Appendix C
• 2007 Water Conservation Master Plan - Appendix D