Landscaping and water cost are two of the most significant expenses for most HOAs but how the water is delivered and controlled is a reserve fund expense most HOAs miss.
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CategoriesJain Unity: Top 3 Smart Landscape Water Management Features
Jain Unity software brings superior weather-based irrigation control for smart landscape water management, with the power of artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, to make it the smartest controller software available today. The software provides users with historical and forecast weather data.
It also provides graphs showing temperature, rain, wind, and cloud coverage. It gives weekly notifications for evapotranspiration loss for your landscape and monthly notifications comparing irrigation use for the past 30 days compared to… Read more »
5 Rules For A Successful Water Audit
Similar to a financial audit, according to the Alliance For Water Efficiency, a water audit is an audit that compares the amount of water pumped and being treated to the amount of water consumed by the end-user as well as for other community activities. Using water efficiently is not just good for the environment; it’s a good business strategy, and a successful water audit is the place to start. Reducing your water use can… Read more »
10 Tips For Busy Gardeners That Save Water
10 Tips For Busy Gardeners, not sure how you are going to find time to save water and keep your garden beautiful at the same time. Making some simple, inexpensive changes to improve the way you water your landscape and you will save water and money too.
Here are 10 tips for busy gardeners to save water:
1.Install an ETwater smart controller
They save water, save money, and set a schedule for your irrigation that helps your… Read more »
How To Maintain Your Turf While Saving Water?
The How To Maintain Your Turf Challenge
At the Town of Prescott Valley, the goal was to maintain high-quality turfgrass and healthy plants, while being water wise and efficient in usage. The Parks & Recreation department maintains roughly 350 acres of parks and open spaces. Within that is about 45 acres of irrigated turf, split up between 18 different sites all around town, as well as thousands of shrubs and trees. In Prescott Valley’s… Read more »
4 Tips To Keep Your Cut Flowers Fresh
Tips to keep your cut flower fresh like flowers in your home are beneficial for your well-being. Several scientific studies show the benefits of flowers and plants to patients recovering from surgery. One of my favorites is found here. When our gardens are full of flowers, it is fun to cut some of them and bring them indoors. It’s not so fun to see them drooping and dying just a day or… Read more »
Quick Guide: Native Plants
Native plants require far less water, save time, money and should be a part of your landscape plans if you are serious about conservation. Native plants adapted to the climate and soil conditions of your area and as a result, need fewer inputs like water and fertilizer. They are also more resistant to local pests. This means they thrive in your yard and you spend less time tending to them. This happens without taking beauty… Read more »
Quick Guide: Where Does Water Come From
Where does water come from? Living in the United States we expect access to clean drinking water each time we turn on the faucet. For most of our lives it has always been this way and we expect this in the future too. We feel secure about our water and our water future. While feeling secure about our water future most of us have no idea where the water comes from or where it goes…. Read more »
4 Tactics To Make Sustainability Your Business Strategy
Make Sustainability Your Business Strategy especially for those of us in the green industry the only business strategy worth following is a sustainability strategy. Sustainability has many definitions. One I prefer is “To meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations”. However, many wonder how to apply this in a business environment? To answer the question in a business context, we need to ask ourselves how can sustainability serve… Read more »
3 Tactics To Improve Your Water Conservation Message
In most cases, I support the concept of removing turf to promote water conservation message, but on two different occasions, I watched landscape professionals present turf removal in a way that made me want to go home and plant turf. The problem was the delivery, not the message. They were dictating to the audience what to do. No one likes to be told what to do. It communicates mistrust, or an attempt to control. It… Read more »
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