Cleaner Water
Water Conservation
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation Water Conservation Field Service Program is using
incentives to enhance water conservation activities through partnerships with water suppliers and other
Federal, State, and local entities. In the past year, the Bureau of Reclamation has assisted a number of new
efforts in the western states, including, for example, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and its
Xeriscape Conversion Study, the largest of its type to date in the West. The SNWA project averages water
savings of 39 percent. As a direct result of the study, SNWA has now launched a valley-wide retrofit xeriscape
program.