Water Smart Holiday Checklist

We need to be careful about our water use all year round – even in the wet weather.

If you are going away:

• Reduce your irrigation schedule and let nature do the watering!

• Ask a neighbour or house sitter to turn off your irrigation when it rains.

• If you’re only going away for a week, consider if your plants will survive and turn off your irrigation or just schedule for once that week. 

While sometimes it may seem like we get a lot of rainy weather, it's important to remember we never know how much rain we are going to get from year to year. With our increasing population and the expected growth in demand, we are continuing to increase our our water usage. It might surprise you to know we currently use almost twice as much water as other cities with similar climates and we currently use more water than can be captured and supplied in the long term.

Everyone needs to play their part to be water smart.