{"id":3994,"date":"2012-01-03T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2012-01-03T11:48:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:48:03","slug":"five-more-hours-of-lawn-watering-for-san-antonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/03\/five-more-hours-of-lawn-watering-for-san-antonians\/","title":{"rendered":"5 More Hours of Watering for San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2526\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\" A warning sign along the shore of the dried O.C. Fisher Lake this summer in San Angelo, Texas.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835665.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2526\" title=\"Farmers, Ranchers Struggle As Texas Endures Historic Drought\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835665-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835665-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835665-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835665.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A warning sign along the shore of the dried O.C. Fisher Lake this summer in San Angelo, Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a resident of San Antonio, you have a little more time to water your lawn starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Water System announced\u00a0today that the city <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saws.org\/latest_news\/NewsDrill.cfm?news_id=806\">will be moving to Stage 1 watering restrictions<\/a>. It had been in Stage 2 since May 31.<\/p>\n<p>The change doesn&#8217;t amount to much, as residents are still only allowed to water with sprinklers or irrigation one day a week. But under the Stage 2 restrictions, you could only water from 3 a.m. until 8 a.m. and from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. With Stage 1, those hours are extended a little, from 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. and from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. one day a week. No sprinkler or irrigation watering is allowed between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. So if you&#8217;re a night owl or early bird, you now\u00a0have five more hours to water your lawn in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we are still under Stage One restrictions, the weather is cooler and wetter, so there\u2019s not much need for outdoor watering right now anyway,&#8221;\u00a0Chuck Ahrens, SAWS Vice President of Water Resources and Conservation said in a release announcing the change. &#8220;However, weather predictions show that dry weather is expected to continue, so we suggest that San Antonians continue their water-saving habits in the event the Edwards Aquifer falls back to Stage Two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The drought in Texas is far from over. Thirty-two percent of the state is still in &#8220;exceptional drought,&#8221; the highest level, and\u00a0resevoirs, aquifers and lakes are <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/29\/texas-inching-out-of-extreme-drought-for-now\/\">a long ways away from being at \u201cnormal\u201d levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a resident of San Antonio, you have a little more time to water your lawn starting tomorrow. The San Antonio Water System announced\u00a0today that the city will be moving to Stage 1 watering restrictions. It had been in Stage 2 since May 31. The change doesn&#8217;t amount to much, as residents are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":2526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}