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My neighbor in Phoenix showed me why she waters at 3am
Last summer I complained to my neighbor Carol about my skyrocketing water bill from watering my lawn at noon. She laughed and said she only waters between 3 and 5am when evaporation is almost zero. She showed me her setup with a simple $20 timer from Home Depot and her bill was $40 less than mine that month. Has anyone else found that shifting watering times actually made a real dent in their utility costs?
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hunt.rowan9d ago
Honestly I'm not buying it. Unless you're watering in direct desert sun at high noon, the difference between 5am and 8am is maybe a few cents of evaporation. I tried the whole early morning thing for two months and my bill dropped like $8. The real savings come from cutting back how much you water or fixing leaks, not from setting an alarm. Plus those cheap timers break after one summer and then you're running sprinklers all day when the battery dies.
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