City of Phoenix Water Services Department
City of Phoenix Water Services Department
2023 – 2024
As the fifth largest city in the United States and one of the most populous desert cities in the world, Phoenix thrives because of water resource planning and conservation. With a history stretching from the ancient canals built by Indigenous peoples, to the modern engineering marvel of the Drought Pipeline, history has shown that people on this land will flourish when they are mindful of their water use.
That is why the City of Phoenix has led the way in water resource planning and conservation. While the City has planned for the future with strategic investments in resilient infrastructure, its residents have spoken with their actions, voluntarily reducing per-person water use by more than 30% since 1990. It is because of these commitments to conservation and the dedication to efficiency that Phoenix has been able to grow its community in a sustainable way.
Phoenix projects
Residential xeriscapes
After the successful development of residential xeriscape design plans for three standard lot sizes during the spring 2023 semester, the City of Phoenix Water Services Department continued its partnership with an honors undergraduate landscape architecture student to gather feedback from residents, experts, and Home Owner’s Associations (HOAs) on irrigation behaviors and xeriscape practices to inform a series of irrigation design plans to supplement the previously created xeriscape plans.
Residential Xeriscape Plan Designs for Water Conservation
Phoenix in the news
Desert Landscape Design Ideas Now Available from Phoenix
Desert Landscape Design Ideas Now Available from Phoenix
Water Use It Wisely,
February 21, 2024
Your journey to creating or maintaining a water-wise landscape is now even easier thanks to the resources provided by the city of Phoenix Water Services Department.
City of Phoenix teams up with ASU students for xeriscape design guide
ABC 15,
June 23, 2023
The xeriscape project includes three possible designs based on average-sized lots for homes in Phoenix. It shows residents how they can transition to native and drought-tolerant landscaping.
Landscape architecture student creates xeriscape designs for city of Phoenix
ASU News,
April 28, 2023
Sofia Lomeli, an Arizona State University landscape architecture student, showed Phoenix city officials and residents how to incorporate native plants in landscaping to reduce water usage, during the Project Cities Phoenix Residential Xeriscape Design Student Showcase on April 21 at the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center.
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City of Phoenix Water Services Department
As the fifth largest city in the United States and one of the most populous desert cities in the world, Phoenix thrives because of water resource planning and conservation. With a history stretching from the ancient canals built by Indigenous peoples, to the modern engineering marvel of the Drought Pipeline, history has shown that people on this land will flourish when they are mindful of their water use.
Town of Kearny
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