IA Addresses EPA H2O Efficiency

The IA continues to maintain and recommend to the EPA that decisions impacting landscape irrigation should be driven locally and that the EPA not move forward with the outdoor criteria of the specification until locally driven and clearer outcome-based performance criteria are developed in partnership with qualified stakeholders.

The Irrigation Association has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the draft WaterSense???????(R)???? Water-Efficient Single-Family New Home Specifications. These comments were developed with significant irrigation stakeholder input through the leadership of the IA?EUR??,,????'?????<

Released in May of 2009, the second draft of the specifications establishes the criteria for the program, applicable to newly constructed single-family homes and townhomes, three stories or less in size. The outdoor criteria focuses on landscape design, a water budget, and an irrigation audit, among other specifics regarding the irrigation system and design. The official IA comments are not to be seen as support for the specifications, but rather a reflection of the best options given the draft presented to the public for comment.

If you have any questions about the WaterSense Water-Efficient Single-Family New Home Specifications, please contact IA?EUR??,,????'?????< andy@irrigation.org, or IA?EUR??,,????'?????< john@irrigation.org