Residential Water Meeting:

  1. City customers have already done a great job reducing residential GPCD.  In the summer months we still see 2-3x more water being used than in the winter.  What programs can you think of that will help reduce summer residential irrigation?
  2. Now with the eye on water app our customers can find leaks and monitor water use in their homes on a real-time basis.  Are you currently signed up for Eye on Water?  How has it changed your behavior and if you haven’t how do you think it could?
  3. If you had to permanently use 20% less water due to shortage what changes would you make?
  4. Santa Fe has maintained a culture of water conservation.  What motivates you to save water?  How do you think others can be motivated?

Commercial Water Efficiency Solutions Meeting:

  1. How can businesses in Santa Fe be more motivated to save even more water?
  2. If you had to permanently use 20% less water due to shortage what changes would you make?
  3. Currently our enforcement program in the summer conducts enforcement runs that look for water waste throughout the City.  Fines are currently issued.  What is a better approach to working with our businesses to save water and educate them on water conservation practices and efficiencies?
  4. The City of Santa Fe should be leading by example.  What are ways that the city itself can be more water conservative?

Climate Change Meeting:

  1. What are your biggest concerns related to climate change relative to water challenges our City might face?
  2. The Santa Fe Waterbank generates revenue by selling conserved water to ensure that new developments have adequate water to support them.  What sorts of projects would you like to see the water conservation office pursue with some of this revenue?
  3. Studies of climate change indicate more extreme rainstorms which we all observed this past summer.  What are your ideas on Stormwater projects that might both address flooding issues  and provide benefit to our local environment?
  4. The challenges associated with climate change are difficult to solve overnight but there are inspiring stories of local successes from all over the world.  In the next 5-years, at the local level what are some things that we can work on together?