5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Garden Hydrated This Summer

As summer heats up you don’t have choose between conserving water or letting your garden cook in the summer sun! Use these five tips to maximize your watering potential and keep your home garden hydrated. 1. Mulch, mulch, and mulch some more! Cover your soil with a blanket of organic material such as straw, leaves, shredded paper or cardboard,…

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Free Watering Gauge Kits!

This summer, we are reminding our customers that waterwise gardening practices can create beautiful landscapes that are multi-colored, vibrant and bountiful, even during the hottest, driest days. Because many people unknowingly water too much and too often, the Regional Water Providers Consortium is offering free outdoor watering gauge kits from July 7-31 to anyone who lives…

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Top Ten Tips to Save Water

Here is a collection of the top ten water conservation tips available. Go Native Use native plants in your landscape. They look great, and don’t need much water or fertilizer. Also choose grass varieties for your lawn that are adapted for your region’s climate, reducing the need for extensive watering or chemical applications. Turn It…

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Weekly Watering Guidelines

View your Weekly Watering Number here.      Watering Guidelines   There is no need to water established plants this week despite the warmer weather we’ve had. Generally speaking, the heavy rainfall over the next several days will keep soils moist.  That said, newer plantings, as well as those in pots or under shelter, may need supplemental watering.…

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The Cost of Water

I recently had the privilege of serving the people of the San Quintin Valley in Baja California, Mexico. The majority of the Baja Peninsula has had drought conditions for six years now. Water is an extremely valuable commodity everywhere but comes with a great price on the Baja Peninsula. Even with an exchange rate of…

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CRW in the Community!

The CRW Conservation and Public Outreach Team participated in the 9th Annual Celebrating Water Event at Clackamas Community College on April 15th.  What were they up to? Plankton races of course! What are plankton? Plankton are organisms that exist in a drifting, floating state in aquatic environments. The term plankton is a collective name for…

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Rain Barrels – Water Tomorrow with Today’s Rain

Water Barrels seem like an easy way to conserve water to me.  Recently Regional Water Providers released a discussion that exposed some of the cons of rain barrels. They make some good points like this one. ” So, if you have a 100 square foot patch of lawn you will need about 62 gallons a week…

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Water Saving Tips for Kids

Clackamas River Water’s General Manager Lee Moore always says, “I learned to recycle by listening to my kids.” Most families know that kids can teach their parents how to do new things. And there are many great places on the web for kids to learn, play and explore about water conservation. Water Use It Wisely’s…

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Energy Star Appliances

Save Money, Energy and get Money Back Shopping season is here!  Love shopping or hate it, we all end up buying holiday gifts just the same this time of year!  That also means the years biggest sales are coming our way.  Which makes this a great time to buy new appliances to take advantage of…

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