Valencia Water Company is expanding its “personal drought report” to businesses and residents who live in condominiums and apartments.

These highly individualized reports specify how much water must be saved this year to meet Governor Brown’s call to save 20 percent during California’s unprecedented drought.

“Valencia Water Company customers already are taking important steps to save water during this historic drought. We thank everyone with their efforts so far, but we still have a long way to go,” said Keith Abercrombie, Valencia Water Company’s General Manager. “Expanding the personal drought report to all customers will provide the level of detail they need to take real action.”

Valencia’s largest customer group – homeowners – began receiving personal drought reports more than a month ago.

For business customers, the drought report is utilizing a computer program analyzing a company’s water use and other factors to create very specific amounts of water to save to meet the 20 percent target. Since condo and apartment residents either don’t have individual water meters or their “water footprint” doesn’t significantly vary from building to building, Valencia Water Company is delivering drought reports to those residents with a more general water-savings target.

The drought reports also contain several helpful tips and details about rebates – all to make it easy for business and residential customers to save water without impacting operations or lifestyle.

“Although it’s a financial investment for local businesses, they can and should take extra steps to save water by installing high-efficiency toilets, high-efficiency irrigation equipment and faucet aerators,” said Matt Dickens, Valencia Water Company’s Resource Conservation Manager. “The good news is that these long-term investments in water efficiency will pay for themselves in little time.”

Dickens said he is hopeful that apartment and condominium residents will recognize that although they may not receive a detailed water bill directly from Valencia Water Company and they likely can’t control landscape irrigation at their units, they can still make positive impacts during these extreme drought conditions.

“This drought is affecting everyone, and the only way we’re going to be able to beat this thing is when everyone does their part to save every drop of water possible,” Dickens said. “We are prepared to work with apartment owners and management companies to implement, as needed, easy fixes that will save significant amounts of water.”

The reports include very specific – and easy – ways to reduce weekly or monthly water use without impacting a person’s lifestyle. For example, apartment and condominium residents can reduce their water use by 175 gallons a week simply by taking shorter showers, using only full loads for laundry and dishes, turning off the faucet when washing hands or brushing teeth, and making sure their toilets are not leaking. One leaking toilet can waste between 200 and 6,000 gallons a day. Replacing a worn toilet flapper costs $5 and takes about five minutes.

More details are available on the Valencia Water Company website www.valenciawater.com or by calling 661-294-0828.

About Valencia Water Company
Valencia Water Company serves approximately 116,000 people in the Santa Clarita Valley, including Valencia, Stevenson Ranch and portions of Newhall, Saugus and Castaic. Valencia supplies its customers with high-quality water supplied from local wells and from imported supplies. Valencia has served the Santa Clarita Valley since 1965. Valencia Water Company can be reached at: www.valenciawater.com or 661-294-0828.