You are KEY!

Balancing Water Supply and Demand
The balance between water supply and demand is crucial for ensuring the sustainable management of water resources. Due to this winter's snow drought impacts and warmer than normal temperatures this spring, we are concerned about low river levels later this summer. Therefore, how you use water outdoors this summer is important. 

CRW is a member of the Clackamas River Water Providers (CRWP), a coalition of municipal drinking water providers that get their drinking water from the Clackamas River. As water providers, we are required to ensure you have water from your tap 24/7/365 days a year, but we see our communities' water use (demand) double and triple during the summer months due to outdoor watering and other water uses.

There are a number of ways you can use less water on your yards and lawns. Sign up for the weekly watering number, think about letting your lawn go dormant (Brown is the new Green), or hand-watering areas of your yard.

We provide information and technical assistance on how to save water at home. We offer a variety of conservation rebates, free landscape water audits, and other water-saving tools that will help you save water both inside and outside the home, but you are the KEY. If you and your neighbors take advantage of these opportunities and make these changes, it will have an impact on our river.

Whether you use a hose or have an underground irrigation system, cool off with a swimming pool or sprinkler, and you care about protecting our river water for people and wildlife, visit the CRWP website today and see what you can do to decrease the amount of water you are using right now and through the summer.

When you shut off your faucets, we stop taking water from the river.