Water Conservation Incentive Programs

2009 Poster Contest Winner Graphic by Marisa Tedori

2009 Poster Contest Winner
Marisa Tedori

Rebate Programs

The rebates offered by the City of Santa Fe’s Water Conservation Office will end Sunday July 18, 2010.  The program has been very successful and funds are depleted.  We are seeking additional funding to bring the program back in the near future.

A goal for the City of Santa Fe is to be the "Conservation Capital of the Nation." To be the leader in water conservation, the City must keep up with "Cutting Edge" technologies.

Beginning January 1, 2010, Sangre de Cristo is offering customers several new rebates to encourage water conservation in an effort to maximize water efficiency and to conserve our present and future water supply. To help finance this rebate program, the City will receive $425,000 from the New Mexico Finance Authority and the U.S.EPA. Funding is through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

On February 13, 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at the urging of President Obama, who signed it into law four days later. As a direct response to the economic crisis, the Recovery Act's goal are to create new jobs and save existing ones, to spur economic activity and invest in long-term economic growth, and to foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending.

The act requires that for EPA funded water and wastewater projects, each state shall allot not less than 20 percent of the funds to address green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency improvements or other environmentally innovative activities. This rebate program helps the State of New Mexico meet this goal.

The new rebates replace and expand on the previous program offered by the City of Santa Fe's Water Conservation Office. The new program helps water customers save water by increasing efficiency. The program offers rebates for the retrofit of efficient technologies, and does not apply to purchases for new homes or new construction and development.

  • Rebates
  • Indoor Water Use
  • Outdoor Water Use
  • Contact Us

To qualify, all appliances and fixtures must be purchased between January 1, 2010, and July 18, 2010. For more information, follow the links below.

Residential Indoor Rebates Include:

Commercial Indoor Rebates Include:

Outdoor Rebates Include:

The AWWA reports that daily indoor per capita use in a typical single family home is 69.3 gallons. Toilets are the largest water user in the home at 26 percent and clothes washers are the second largest water user at 22 percent. By installing more efficient appliances and fixtures and regularly checking for leaks, households can reduce daily per capita water use by about 35 percent to 45.2 gallons per day.

Indoor Water Use Chart

Landscape water use generally follows the ET weather pattern with most irrigation start-ups in May and shutting down in October providing for a six-month watering season for Santa Fe.  Landscapes provide a quality of life.  Continued drought, inefficient irrigation systems, and poor water management deplete water supplies and threaten this quality of life.  Because of the expanding concern over water conservation, especially as it relates to outdoor watering, options for improving irrigation efficiencies in the landscape are needed.

Outdoor Water Use Chart
Water Shed

Water Conservation Office:
(505) 955-4225

Water Waste Hotline:
(505) 955-4222

Fax:
(505) 955-4208

Daniel Ransom
Water Conservation Manager
(505) 955-4221
dsransom@santafenm.gov

Randy Sugrue
Water Conservation Specialist
(505) 955-4220
rcsugrue@santafenm.gov

Sangre de Cristo Water Division
Water Conservation Office
801 W. San Mateo Road
P.O. Box 909
Santa Fe, NM 87504-0909