Monrovia, CA —The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this week that the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District (Upper Water) has been honored with the 2020 WaterSense Partner of the Year Award for its heroic efforts to defeat water waste and promote WaterSense in 2019.
Upper Water was honored as a 2020 WaterSense Partner of the Year winner for spreading the water-efficiency message through public education and awareness while transforming the marketplace to include WaterSense labeled products. Upper Water’s noteworthy efforts included initiating a collaborative effort to translate some of the WaterSense materials into Mandarin. Upper Water also engaged the commercial sector through water-smart landscape equipment retrofits and offering new workshops on finding and fixing leaks for San Gabriel Valley businesses. Financial incentives for WaterSense labeled products in Upper Water’s service area included rebates for approximately 400 tank-type toilets, over 200 flush valve toilets, and nearly 400 weather-based irrigation controllers.
