By using weather based irrigation technology, the Santa Barbara County ET Controller
Distribution and Installation Program is saving 25% of the landscape water use at targeted
residential properties in Santa Barbara County (County), California, U.S.A. Reducing landscape
water use is a large source of potential water savings in Santa Barbara County because
approximately fifty percent of residential water use in the County is for landscape irrigation and
there are many large residential landscapes. The program involves distribution and installation of
300 WeatherTRAK® ET irrigation controllers (ET Controller) over three years at no cost to the
program partners' highest water using residential customers. This program was the first in
California to directly involve both the customer and local licensed landscape contractors in this
new technology. Includes figures.