Save water this summer and help protect the Spokane River.
Do you love exploring the great outdoors? Do you want to protect Spokane River flows by saving water? Do you want to spend less time tending your lawn? Outdoor Watering Nerds are here to help.
The Outdoor Watering Nerds website (Outdoorwateringnerds.org) provides a host of resources in the form of how-to videos, water saving tips, and rebate options in Kootenai and Spokane counties. You can learn to detect outdoor leaks, repair and retrofit your sprinkler system, install a weather-based sprinkler controller, or use native and drought-tolerant plants in your landscaping. A directory on this webpage connects you to professionals if do-it-yourself isn’t your thing. Working together, our small to large actions to reduce outdoor watering add up to big changes that protect our environment, including our sole source aquifer that provides drinking water to over half of a million people.
Summertime is a good season to consider water conservation, because that’s when we use three to five times more water than we do in the winter just to keep our lawns green. As we pump more water from the aquifer to water our lawns, Spokane river flows reach their lowest. The hottest months of the year are the time when the river needs cold water the most to maintain a healthy environment for fish, wildlife, and recreation.
Visit Outdoorwateringnerds.org. It’s good for you, good for our river and aquifer, and good for our future.
