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WaterSense

Water Budget Tool

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The WaterSense Water Budget Tool can be used to comply with section 4.1.1, Landscape Design, of Version 1.2 of the WaterSense New Home Specification (PDF) (19 pp, 2250 K, About PDF) or to ensure a measure of efficiency and regional suitability for the amount of water applied to a landscape based on local climate data.

The Water Budget Tool is available as an excel tool (xlsx)(Version 1.04 released June,2020. 1.18 MB). Unfortunately EPA is no longer able to support the web application version of the tool.

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