If you’re a longtime Austinite, you’re familiar with drought regulations, conversation efforts, and water rate hikes. What you may not know: Austin Water offers free home upgrades and rebates, which simultaneously helps the planet and saves customers money.
Home improvements
- Request free conservation tools like a water-efficient showerhead, kitchen faucet aerator, and bathroom faucet aerator.
- Get up to $200 for a new pool cover and up to $250 for a cartridge pool filter.
In the yard
- Request a free soil moisture meter.
- Check out a water saver hose meter or sunlight calculator at Austin Public Library.
- Apply for landscape rebates to convert turf grass into a native bed, upgrade landscaping to retain rainwater, and harvest rainwater.
- Apply for up to $1,000 for improving your irrigation system’s efficiency.
- Get up to $40 back on hose timers and up to $150 back to reuse laundry water to water landscape.
