2026 US Turf Water Restriction Tracker
This turf water restriction tracker compiles, in one place, every operative 2026 US state and major-city watering restriction, mandatory schedule, and turf-removal rebate program governing residential and commercial landscape water use. Coverage spans the SNWA $5 per square foot rebate in Las Vegas, the MWD SoCal Water$mart $2 per square foot base stack to $5 with LADWP, Phoenix and Tucson AMWUA stage-based ordinances, Colorado HB22-1151 HOA preemption enforcement, and Florida HB 941 ratification. Data verified as of June 17, 2026.
This turf water restriction tracker consolidates the operative 2026 outdoor irrigation rules, statewide turf removal rebate dollars, HOA preemption statutes, and US drought conditions that landscape contractors, suppliers, and homeowners need to price work and plan retrofits. Data verified as of June 17, 2026. The document is built from federal water use estimates published by the US Geological Survey, the NOAA US Drought Monitor, state agency program pages from the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the California Department of Water Resources, CWCB, Tucson Water, and current ordinance text from city water utilities in Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, Austin, Sacramento, Albuquerque, Denver, and Salt Lake City.
The short version
- About 56.16% of the lower 48 states sat in some level of drought as of the June 9, 2026 update from the NOAA US Drought Monitor, with 8.8% in extreme (D3) and 0.9% in exceptional (D4) drought.
- The Southern Nevada Water Authority Water Smart Landscapes program pays single family residences $5 per square foot of grass removed up to the first 10,000 square feet, then $2.50 per square foot thereafter, and adds $100 per qualifying tree planted, fiscal year July 1 to June 30.
- The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) SoCal Water$mart residential turf rebate base is $2.00 per square foot up to 5,000 square feet per year, stackable with local agency adders. LADWP stacks an additional $3 to bring the residential rate to $5 per square foot in its service area.
- California Assembly Bill 1572, codified at Water Code section 10608.14, prohibits the use of potable water to irrigate nonfunctional turf on commercial, industrial, and institutional properties, with HOA common area compliance required by January 1, 2029.
- Colorado House Bill 22-1151 seeded the statewide Turf Replacement Program with a $2 million appropriation; the most recent application cycle closed February 28, 2025 with roughly $474,000 in residual program funds, per The Colorado Sun reporting on CWCB board action.
- The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority raised its xeriscape rebate to $3.00 per square foot in 2025, up from $2.00 in 2022 and $1.50 before that.
- The EPA WaterSense program reports cumulative water savings of 9.9 trillion gallons and $245 billion in avoided water and energy costs through year end 2024, and a WaterSense labeled irrigation controller saves an average home up to 15,000 gallons per year.
- San Antonio Water System has been in Stage 3 drought restrictions since June 2024 (one watering day per week, hose end timers only during defined morning and night windows), the first Stage 3 declaration in SAWS’s 30 year history.
The big picture: irrigation is the swing variable in US freshwater use
Total US freshwater withdrawals were estimated at roughly 281 billion gallons per day in 2015, the most recent vintage of the USGS Estimated Use of Water in the United States (Circular 1441). Irrigation accounted for 118 billion gallons per day, or 42% of the freshwater total, against roughly 39 billion gallons per day for public supply. The agency’s newer modeled estimates for 2020 (published 2024 to 2025) cover public supply, irrigation, and thermoelectric power and put 2010 to 2020 average freshwater withdrawals at 223,594 million gallons per day across the conterminous US, per the USGS Water Use program.
The turf piece of that withdrawal sits inside public supply outdoor use and inside self supplied domestic and landscape watering. The EPA WaterSense outdoor water use fact sheet places residential outdoor water use at roughly 30% of total residential demand nationally, climbing to as much as 60% of household use in arid western states. That is the lever every state water authority is now pulling, by ordinance (mandatory day group schedules), by statute (AB 1572 nonfunctional turf), by incentive (turf replacement dollars at the SNWA, MWD, Aurora Water, ABCWUA, Tucson Water, and CWCB), and by HOA preemption (Florida Statute 720.3075, Utah HB 282, Colorado HB 22-1151).
The drought backdrop for 2026 makes the policy ramp coherent. The National Integrated Drought Information System reports 46.93% of the United States and Puerto Rico, and 56.16% of the lower 48, in some level of drought as of the June 9, 2026 weekly update. Severe drought (D2) covered 18.2% of the country, extreme drought (D3) 8.8%, and exceptional drought (D4) 0.9%, with deepening conditions across the Northeast and Mid Atlantic and a continued Colorado River basin shortage in the Southwest.
2026 state by state turf rebate and watering rule comparison table
| State | Base statewide or anchor program | Rebate ($/sqft) | Outdoor irrigation rule (statewide or major utility) | HOA preemption statute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | MWD SoCal Water$mart residential base | $2.00 (MWD base), local stack up to $5+ | AB 1572 (Wat. Code 10608.14) nonfunctional turf ban phased 2027 to 2029; MWELO 2015 for new builds | Davis Stirling Act water efficient landscaping protections; AB 1572 supersedes HOA covenants |
| Nevada | SNWA Water Smart Landscapes | $5.00 first 10,000 sqft; $2.50 thereafter (residential) | LVVWD mandatory watering schedule by group, no Sunday irrigation any season | Nevada AB 356 (2021) bars Colorado River water for nonfunctional turf from 2027 |
| Arizona | Tucson Water residential grass removal | Up to $3,000 per residential property; $5/sqft for commercial nonfunctional turf removal | Phoenix Drought Stage 2 active 2026; AMWUA coordinates 10 municipal members | HOA flexibility through ARS 33-1808 desert landscaping protections (limited scope) |
| Colorado | CWCB Turf Replacement Program (HB 22-1151) | $3.00 (Aurora GRIP); CWCB program pass-through varies by sub-grantee | City of Denver permanent summer watering rules three days per week | SB 24-005 codifies HOA limits on water wise landscaping prohibitions (building on HB 22-1151 framework) |
| Utah | Utah Water Savers Flip Your Strip | $1.25 base ($1.25/sqft Salt Lake City service area) | Utah Division of Water Resources drought stage guidance + local utility schedules | HB 282 (2022) bars HOAs from prohibiting water wise landscaping on detached homes |
| Texas | Utility level (TWDB does not run a statewide rebate) | SAWS WaterSaver Landscape Coupon up to $400; municipal varied | SAWS Stage 3 active since June 2024; Austin Conservation Stage as of May 2026 | Texas Property Code 202.007 (drought tolerant landscaping) allows but with HOA review |
| Florida | Utility level (water management districts) | Local utility programs (no statewide rebate) | SFWMD Rule 40E-24 year round two days per week; no daytime irrigation 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | F.S. 720.3075 prohibits HOA bans on Florida Friendly Landscaping |
| New Mexico | ABCWUA Xeriscape Rebate | $3.00 (residential and commercial, no minimum) | Albuquerque Water Waste Ordinance seasonal watering days; no daytime irrigation in summer | NMSA 47-7A-3 et seq.; partial |
Source citations link to the operative ordinance or program page. Stack adders may apply. Verified by direct visit to each program page on June 17, 2026.
California: AB 1572 retires nonfunctional turf in stages while MWELO governs new build
California’s signature turf policy is Assembly Bill 1572 (Friedman, 2023), signed October 13, 2023 and codified as new Chapter 2.5 starting at Water Code section 10608.14. The statute prohibits the use of potable water for irrigation of nonfunctional turf on commercial, industrial, institutional, and HOA common area properties (cemeteries are excluded). Phased compliance dates are January 1, 2027 (state agency and local government properties, excluding disadvantaged communities), January 1, 2028 (commercial, industrial, institutional), and January 1, 2029 (HOA common areas and CIDs). The State Water Resources Control Board adopted the implementing regulation July 3, 2024 with January 1, 2025 effective date.
Sitting alongside AB 1572 is the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO), codified at California Code of Regulations Title 23, Chapter 2.7. MWELO 2015 applies to new construction with aggregate landscape area of 500 square feet or more requiring a building permit, and to rehabilitated landscapes of 2,500 square feet or more. Every local agency must adopt MWELO or an at least as effective local ordinance. DWR released proposed amendments to MWELO in November 2023 with rulemaking through 2024; current published version is the Final MWELO Text and Appendices (January 2025).
The state’s indoor counterpart, Senate Bill 1157 (Hertzberg, 2022), tightens the indoor residential standard from 55 gallons per capita per day to 47 gpcd in 2025 and 42 gpcd in 2030, embedded in Water Code section 10609.4. That standard applies to urban retail water suppliers as part of the urban water use objective, not directly to individual customers. Together with AB 1572 and MWELO, it forms California’s statutory tripod for the Making Conservation a California Way of Life regulatory framework finalized by the State Water Board in 2024.
On the carrot side, the MWD SoCal Water$mart base residential turf replacement rebate is $2.00 per square foot up to 5,000 square feet per year, with a stormwater retention feature required and three plants per 100 square feet of converted area. Member agencies stack on top: LADWP brings the residential rate to $5 per square foot. Tree adders are $100 per tree up to five trees ($500). Commercial and public agency rates run to $6 and $7 per square foot respectively under MWD’s recently expanded commercial program, with the higher tier scheduled to step down for projects not completed by September 30, 2026. For homeowners running the math against the state’s California turf removal rebate guide, the maximum residential California stack approaches $5 per square foot when both MWD and LADWP dollars are layered.
Nevada and Arizona: prohibition plus the West’s biggest dollar incentives
The SNWA Water Smart Landscapes rebate is the largest dollar per square foot turf removal program in the United States. As verified on the SNWA program page, residential customers receive $5.00 per square foot of grass removed and replaced with desert landscaping for the first 10,000 square feet, then $2.50 per square foot thereafter, per property per fiscal year. Business, HOA, and multifamily properties receive $5 for the first 10,000 square feet then $1.50 thereafter. The program adds $100 per new tree planted up to 100% canopy coverage. Well owners are capped at 2,500 square feet per fiscal year. Active irrigation must be present at the pre conversion inspection, drip is required post conversion, and the work has to clear post inspection with a recorded easement before the check is cut.
The SNWA dollars are stackable. The Las Vegas Valley Water District adds $2 per square foot on top of the $5 SNWA base in its service area, and the City of Henderson adds a $575 flat incentive. SNWA estimates a square foot of drip irrigated landscaping uses 18 gallons of water per year, compared with 73 gallons for a square foot of grass, on the program’s official page. The policy floor under those dollars is Nevada Assembly Bill 356 (2021), which prohibits the use of Colorado River water to irrigate nonfunctional grass on business, HOA, and traffic median properties beginning in 2027.
Las Vegas Valley Water District customers operate on a mandatory watering schedule by geographic group (A through F). Spring and fall, three assigned days per week; summer (May to August), six days (Monday through Saturday, no daytime watering 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.); winter (November to February), one assigned day per week. Sunday watering is prohibited year round for all customers, anywhere in the valley.
Arizona’s response is decentralized through the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, the coordinating body for Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Glendale, Chandler, Scottsdale, Peoria, Gilbert, Goodyear, and Avondale. The City of Phoenix Drought Management Plan is currently in Stage 2 in response to the federal Tier 2 Shortage declaration that cut Arizona’s Colorado River allocation by 21%. Under Stage 2, sprinkler irrigation is restricted to before 10:00 a.m. and after 6:00 p.m., with no Sunday irrigation. The Tucson Water rebate reimburses residential grass removal at rates that cap at $3,000 per property and includes a $2,000 rainwater harvesting rebate ($1,000 active cistern and $1,000 passive earthworks). The expanded commercial program pays $5 per square foot up to $100,000 for ornamental grass removal at multifamily and business sites, plus $1 per gallon of basin capacity up to $5,000 for rainwater harvesting basins.
Colorado, Utah, and the Intermountain West: turf replacement grants meet HOA preemption
Colorado’s Turf Replacement Program, authorized by House Bill 22-1151 (signed June 2022), put $2 million through the Colorado Water Conservation Board to incentivize voluntary nonessential turf replacement statewide. The most recent application cycle closed February 28, 2025, and CWCB reported approximately $474,000 in residual funds heading into the May 2025 board meeting, per The Colorado Sun. The CWCB program is not a homeowner direct rebate; it funds local sub-grantees who run their own residential programs. The City of Aurora’s Grass Replacement Incentive Program (GRIP) pays $3 per square foot for traditional water wise landscapes and $0.50 per square foot for water wise turf grass substitutes. Pre approval is mandatory, and rebates of $600 or more trigger 1099 reporting. Denver Water partners with Resource Central to offer up to $750 in 2026 toward turfgrass removal, plus a $25 discount on Garden In A Box water-wise plant kits; the 2026 turf removal allocation was fully reserved by April 2026.
On HOA preemption, Colorado moved beyond HB 22-1151’s program authorization with Senate Bill 24-005 codifying broader limits on HOA prohibitions of water-wise landscaping. Practical effect: HOAs may set design and aesthetic standards but cannot ban xeriscape or native plant conversions outright.
Utah’s House Bill 282 (2022) codified at Utah Code 57-8a-231 prohibits an HOA from enacting or enforcing governing documents that prohibit a detached single family home owner from incorporating water wise landscaping. HOAs may still require site plan review, healthy plant maintenance, restriction of detrimental mulches, minimum or maximum vegetative coverage, and restriction of specific plant materials. The statute also bars HOAs from requiring lawn in any area less than eight feet wide and from restricting conversion of grass park strips to water-efficient landscaping. On the incentive side, the Flip Your Strip program pays $1.25 per square foot for park strip lawn conversion across participating Utah water utilities; Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities is one of the original anchor agencies (see the SLC Public Utilities conservation FAQ). Note that Utah’s broader Localscapes coaching and design assistance program runs through Localscapes, partly subsidized by the Utah Division of Water Resources.
New Mexico’s Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority Xeriscape Rebate raised its per square foot rate to $3.00 in 2025, up from $2.00 in 2022 and $1.50 before that, per the ABCWUA program page. Minimum square footage thresholds for the residential rebate were eliminated in the 2025 update. Pre approval by an ABCWUA xeriscape inspector is required before any turf removal begins; otherwise the project is ineligible.
Texas and Florida: utility level enforcement under year round drought rules
Texas does not run a statewide turf rebate from the Texas Water Development Board. Restrictions and rebates run through municipal utilities operating under TCEQ Drought Response rules. San Antonio Water System entered Stage 3 drought restrictions in June 2024 (the first Stage 3 declaration in the utility’s 30 year history) and remains at Stage 3 as of mid 2026, driven by the Edwards Aquifer J 17 well index sitting below the 640 foot Stage 3 trigger. Stage 3 restricts sprinkler irrigation to one day per week, 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. to midnight, by address last digit. SAWS publishes the WaterSaver Landscape Coupon at up to $400 per property toward conversion plants and materials.
Austin Water returned to the baseline Conservation Stage on September 2, 2025 after Highland Lakes storage recovered. Under Conservation Stage, automatic irrigation is allowed once per week with hose end sprinklers and drip irrigation allowed twice per week, with permitted hours of midnight to 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to midnight on each customer’s assigned day, per the Austin Water drought response page. As of late April 2026, Lake Buchanan was 96.5% full and Lake Travis 73.5% full, per Austin Water’s published lake level data.
Florida operates the most prescriptive year round irrigation rule in the country. South Florida Water Management District Rule 40E-24, codified at Florida Administrative Code 40E-24.201, has been in effect since March 2010 and limits landscape watering to two days per week throughout the SFWMD service area (three days in some counties), with no daytime irrigation 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Local governments may adopt more stringent ordinances. Florida’s HOA preemption sits at Florida Statute 720.3075, which bars HOA documents from prohibiting Florida Friendly Landscaping as defined in F.S. 373.185, while allowing architectural review committees to set reasonable standards and require advance approval. The University of Florida IFAS Extension publishes the Florida Friendly Landscaping principles as the authoritative reference standard for what qualifies.
EPA WaterSense and smart irrigation: the federal labeling system that anchors most rebates
The EPA WaterSense program is the federal labeling regime that most state and utility rebates use as their qualification gate. Per the EPA’s Accomplishments and History page, WaterSense and its partners have helped Americans save a cumulative 9.9 trillion gallons of water and avoid roughly $245 billion in water and energy bills through year end 2024. WaterSense labeled plumbing fixtures and irrigation products contributed 8.7 trillion gallons of cumulative savings since the program launched in 2006.
For irrigation specifically, WaterSense labels two categories of controllers: weather based irrigation controllers (WBIC) and soil moisture based irrigation controllers (SMBIC), each verified against a defined efficiency standard. The current product database is published at lookforwatersense.epa.gov. Replacing a standard clock based controller with a WaterSense labeled controller saves an average home up to 15,000 gallons of water per year, per EPA. If every US automatic sprinkler home installed a WaterSense controller, EPA projects $4.5 billion in annual water bill savings and 390 billion gallons of annual savings nationally.
Major brands with EPA WaterSense certified models include Rachio (Rachio 3 family), Hunter Hydrawise (HC and HPC controllers), Rain Bird (ST8O 2.0 and ARC8 families), Orbit B-hyve, and Toro Evolution. The certification matters because most stackable rebate programs (SoCal Water$mart smart controller rebate, SNWA, Aurora Water, ABCWUA, Tucson Water, and dozens of municipal utilities) require WaterSense certification for the controller to qualify. The WaterSense data and methodology page documents the testing protocol and the third party certifying body program. For homeowners weighing the controller upgrade economics, our drip irrigation installation guide and lawn square footage measurement guide are companion resources.
HOA preemption laws are quietly the most important enabling lever
Without HOA preemption, turf rebates underperform: associations block conversions through aesthetic covenants, residents face fines for installing rebate eligible designs, and the policy fails to convert dollars into demolished sod. The clean test cases are Florida and Utah.
Florida Statute 720.3075 declares that the use of Florida Friendly Landscaping serves a compelling public interest and that HOA documents (declarations of covenants, articles, bylaws) may not prohibit or be enforced so as to prohibit any property owner from implementing Florida Friendly Landscaping. The statute references the definition at F.S. 373.185. The preemption is not absolute: associations may still impose reasonable standards and require advance approval through architectural review, per the Florida Bar’s published analysis in the Florida Bar Journal.
Utah’s HB 282 (2022) at Utah Code 57-8a-231 is more restrictive on HOA authority. As of May 5, 2022, HOAs may not enact or enforce governing documents that prohibit a detached dwelling owner from incorporating water wise landscaping. HOAs retain authority over design review, mulch type, and plant species selection but lose the ability to require lawn in any area less than eight feet wide, or to block conversion of grass park strips.
Colorado’s SB 24-005 (2024) built on HB 22-1151’s program authorization with broader limits on HOA prohibitions of native and water wise landscaping. Nevada’s AB 356, California’s AB 1572, and the Florida and Utah statutes form the practical floor below which HOA aesthetic enforcement cannot drop in the western and Southeast markets. For landscape contractors writing proposals for HOA common area conversions, our SB 1157 / AB 1572 analysis covers the design specs and the procurement implications.
What this means for landscape operators, suppliers, and homeowners
For landscape contractors: The 2026 rebate stack and the AB 1572 / Nevada AB 356 nonfunctional turf prohibitions are pulling demand toward conversion work and away from new turf installs in the West. Pre approval requirements (SNWA, Tucson Water, ABCWUA, Aurora, MWD, SoCal Water$mart) are non negotiable; build a per project pre application gate into your sales workflow or you will install conversions that the rebate program rejects. Document pre conversion site conditions with date stamped photos and active irrigation evidence (SNWA explicitly requires live grass at the pre site visit). For HOA common area work, the AB 1572 January 1, 2029 deadline for California HOAs is the longest runway, but most master HOA boards will tender RFPs through 2027 to avoid the rush. The state turf rebate database is the per state pre-bid checklist.
For irrigation suppliers and equipment dealers: The smart controller pull-through is the biggest single line item moving in 2026. Stocking WaterSense certified inventory (Rachio 3, Hunter Hydrawise HC/HPC, Rain Bird ST8O 2.0 and ARC8, Orbit B-hyve) is the gating step for capturing rebate funded retrofits. SNWA, MWD, Aurora, ABCWUA, and dozens of other utility programs cross reference the EPA WaterSense product database at rebate processing. Stock check valves, pressure regulators, matched precipitation nozzles, and drip conversion kits in volume; SoCal Water$mart and SNWA both require drip on the converted area.
For homeowners: Run a per parcel rebate stack analysis before you take a saw to your sprinkler heads. The Las Vegas valley resident converting 1,500 square feet of front lawn can capture $7,500 (SNWA $5/sqft x 1,500) plus $3,000 (LVVWD $2/sqft x 1,500) plus tree adders; the Los Angeles resident with MWD plus LADWP captures the equivalent of $5 per square foot on the first 5,000 square feet. Utah park strip conversions average $1.25 per square foot from Flip Your Strip; Albuquerque pays $3 per square foot with no minimum. Watch your watering days: violations carry escalating fines in every utility we tracked, and SAWS, Phoenix, and LVVWD all have active enforcement teams in 2026. If a drought tolerant lawn alternative is your endpoint, our MWELO compliance walkthrough covers the new build path and our Nevada turf replacement program guide walks through the SNWA application step by step. For drought-prone-region homeowners new to outdoor water budgeting, our how to prepare for a drought guide and drought causes explainer are the entry points.
Methodology
This tracker is built from Tier 3 federal agency primary sources (EPA WaterSense product database and Accomplishments Report, NOAA US Drought Monitor, USGS Estimated Use of Water in the United States Circular 1441 and the 2020 modeled estimates) and Tier 4 state agency dockets (California State Water Resources Control Board, California DWR MWELO rulemaking, SNWA program pages, Tucson Water program pages, ABCWUA program pages, CWCB program pages, SFWMD Rule 40E-24, TCEQ drought response, Utah Division of Water Resources). Statutory citations are taken from the LegInfo legislative database (California), the Utah Legislature bills site, the Colorado General Assembly bills database, the Florida Senate statutes archive, and Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau. Rebate dollar values, watering schedule rules, and HOA preemption statute interpretations were verified by direct visit to each agency’s program or statute page on June 17, 2026. Where utility programs publish current period stack rates (LVVWD additional $2 over SNWA, LADWP additional $3 over MWD, Tucson Water tiered commercial), the live program page value is the authoritative rate.
Limitations
This tracker is national in scope but not exhaustive at the utility level. Programs from individual utilities not specifically named in the comparison table (including Eastern Municipal Water District, Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Coachella Valley Water District, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Marin Water, East Bay MUD, City of Henderson rebates beyond the $575 flat, City of Goodyear, Mesa, Tempe, Glendale, Castle Rock CO, Logan UT, and Clark County NV unincorporated utilities) are not enumerated; check each utility’s rebate page for current values. We did not attempt to track temporary emergency drought declarations issued and rescinded after April 2026, since those move on weekly cycles via the US Drought Monitor update. We did not catalogue golf course irrigation rules, agricultural irrigation under reclamation district allocations, or industrial process water restrictions, since those run under separate regulatory regimes. We did not attempt to quantify gallons saved per converted square foot at the national level, since the conversion factor varies by climate zone (the SNWA published estimate of 55 gallons saved per square foot per year for grass-to-drip in Las Vegas is not transferable to coastal California or Florida). We did not include private label artificial turf rebates (some SoCal water districts ban artificial turf from MWD-funded programs; SNWA does not pay for artificial turf installs). The CWCB Turf Replacement Program has no announced 2026 application cycle as of the verification date.
Future Updates
This tracker is on a quarterly refresh cadence. The next scheduled update is September 17, 2026. Material policy changes that trigger an off cycle update include new statewide nonfunctional turf laws, new statewide turf replacement program funding (CWCB cycle 4 if authorized, Nevada legislative session activity, Utah Division of Water Resources budget actions), MWD board action on residential or commercial Water$mart rate changes, a Lake Mead elevation re-trigger of Colorado River shortage tier (1,025 feet for Tier 2a, 1,000 feet for Tier 3), or SFWMD Rule 40E-24 amendment.
How to cite this report
APA: HMNDP Landscaping. (2026). 2026 US Turf Water Use & Restriction Tracker. https://hmndp.org/guides/2026-us-turf-water-use-restriction-tracker/ Chicago: HMNDP Landscaping. "2026 US Turf Water Use & Restriction Tracker." 2026. https://hmndp.org/guides/2026-us-turf-water-use-restriction-tracker/. MLA: "HMNDP Landscaping. 2026 US Turf Water Use & Restriction Tracker." HMNDP Landscaping, 2026, https://hmndp.org/guides/2026-us-turf-water-use-restriction-tracker/.
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