Energized Solutions has been awarded a contract by the City of Poway to conduct a series of classes on California-friendly landscapes for homeowners. The topics covered in the series are landscape design, California friendly plants, efficient irrigation systems, soils, fertilizers, and watering strategies.

The City of Poway is a recognized leader in water conservation in Southern California. Energized Solutions is excited to be working the City to help the City reach its water conservation goal “to create long-term sustainable change in how Poway residents and businesses think about and use our limited water supply”.  Energized Solutions instructors are developing customized presentations that will educate homeowners on water conservation strategies as well as the programs and services offered by the City. For more information on the classes please visit the City of Poway’s website.

http://poway.org/Index.aspx?page=13&recordid=883&returnURL=%2fIndex.aspx%3fpage%3d762

To have Energized Solutions provide water education workshops for your agency or group, please contact Troy Roble: troy@energizedsolutions.com

The Energized Solutions team attended the Water Conservation Summit presented by the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) at Cuyamaca College on June 2, 2009. This was the 3rd annual summit presented by SDCWA and more than 350 participants attended, representing water agencies, landscape architects/designers, utilities, educators, and consulting organizations. We left the conference very impressed with the level of inter-agency cooperation and information sharing related to San Diego related to water issues. San Diego faces many changes with respect to water this summer and the City of San Diego has issued a Level 2 Draught alert that imposes several mandatory water restrictions for water customers. The other retailers in the SDCWA service territory will impose similar restrictions in July. Energized Solutions is eager to help the region by partnering with the water agencies and other stakeholders to develop solutions, including customized curriculums and education outreach programs that will be required to educate the public about approaches they can take to meet both this immediate and long term challenge of water scarcity.

Energized Solutions continues to raise the bar for MWD’s California Friendly Landscape Training Program. During the month of May 2009, Energized Solutions instructors taught 5 Residential classes for Metropolitan Water District that averaged 64 participants per class! Participants were especially excited about the instructor’s knowledge of fire-resistant plants to meet the needs of residents living in fire-prone areas of Southern California. Energized Solutions closed out the MWD fiscal year 2008-2009 with a total of 55 classes (43 Residential classes and 12 Professional classes) and looks forward to continue partnering with MWD and other water agencies during the upcoming year to help Southern California deal with the ongoing water crisis.