WaterWise staff members have functioned as technical advisors for water agencies that are trying to implement water conservation programs. Some duties performed include, but are not limited to:

• Represent Agencies at water and green industry meetings
• Evaluate proposals
• Write and prepare contracts
• Create and maintain project databases
• Evaluate data and quality control issues
• Track site water-use data
• Generate water-use reports
• Generate cost analysis reports
• Inspect sites for irrigation retrofits (pre and post inspections)
• Evaluate new technology

WaterWise has used its expertise in irrigation technology to provide assistance with evaluating new technology for the water conservation and green industries, such as the programs listed below.

WaterWise staff was responsible for analyzing innovative technology, which had significant water conservation potential. Main factors examined for each program were installation costs, maintenance requirements, customer satisfaction, ease of use, durability, and verifiable water savings.

Metropolitan offered the Innovative Conservation Program, which allocated funds for any new and innovative technologies in water conservation. WaterWise served as an evaluator and participated in selecting the grant recipients for the Innovative Conservation Program.

WaterWise was an evaluator for Municipal Water District of Orange County’s Contractor’s Certification Program. This program offered an innovative way of tracking water use for landscape sites. This new program offered certification and promotion to businesses, contractors, and property managers who met their respective water budgets for the sites they were managing.

WaterWise staff played a key role in Metropolitan Water Agency’s Conservation Credits Program. This program offered financial incentives to owners of large landscapes to retrofit their irrigation systems and improve irrigation efficiency. Water-use data tracking in these types of projects was essential, because the subsidy or conservation credit given to the end-user was based on the data contained in the report.

WaterWise was instrumental in evaluating the PDA program and making the necessary changes to convert it into a leaner and more smoothly running program. WaterWise was also selected to develop three new classes under the auspices of PDA. This project included converting all classes into video format for use by Metropolitan’s member agencies.