The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and Alliance for Water Efficiency Partner to Support Water Usage Research and Education
05 Febrero 2024 - 1:22PM
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and the Alliance for Water
Efficiency (AWE) have announced an extension of their partnership
that will support research to improve the efficiency of lawns and
other landscapes. The grant helps to fund environmental programs
through December 2025.
“We are honored to receive this funding from The Scotts
Miracle-Gro Foundation, which continues our long-standing
partnership to research how to design, grow, and irrigate lawns and
other landscapes to save water and enhance the environment,” said
Ron Burke, President and CEO, Alliance for Water Efficiency. “This
2024 funding will allow us to evaluate landscape transformation
programs and create resources that can help water efficiency and
conservation practitioners in their day-to-day work.”
“We’re so excited to continue our partnership with AWE,” said
Brian Herrington, president of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation.
“We’ve seen firsthand the benefits of water conservation research
and look forward to the results of our new planned project with
AWE. Collaborations with leaders like AWE are important to making a
positive impact on the world.”
The new projects within this grant agreement centers on helping
households use water wisely outdoors, including:
- The Creation of a guidebook for smart practices in
utility-sponsored residential landscape and irrigation programs,
which have evolved beyond the traditional financial rebate models.
The Guidebook will help water utilities and city water departments
effectively design and implement landscape transformation and
irrigation programs to save water and enhance the environment.
- A research project to collect and synthesize current knowledge
of behavior-based strategies that help residents irrigate smarter
and use less water on household landscapes. Behavior-based
strategies focus on using insights from psychology and behavioral
science to help individuals make more optimal decisions about when
and how much to water, which can enhance other strategies like
changing out irrigation equipment or transforming landscapes. This
project will include real-life experiments piloting behavior-based
strategies.
“Utility-sponsored residential landscape transformation programs
have significantly grown over the past decade to increase water
savings and address barriers to households successfully adapting
their landscapes to a changing climate,” said Liesel Hans, PhD,
Director of Programs, Alliance for Water Efficiency. “We are
excited to explore the wide range of innovative programs that exist
and then synthesize the smart practices into a singular resource
that utilities can reference in building out programs in their
communities. We are particularly interested in focusing on efforts
that have an eye toward advancing equity and improving access to
programs. We look forward to digging into the data in the coming
months and are hopeful about the impact this study can have in the
field.”
The projects will focus on residential landscapes by exploring
the evolution of strategies that water utilities are employing to
support customers with landscape transformations, identifying
behavioral strategies, and evaluating programs designed to help
residents optimize water used for irrigation on household
landscapes to maximize water savings and other benefits.
About the Alliance for Water EfficiencyThe
Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE) is a North American 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization dedicated to the sustainable and efficient
use of water. Based in Chicago, AWE works with over 500 member
agencies made up of water utilities, water conservation
professionals in business and industry, policymakers, nonprofits,
and researchers. As the leading voice for water efficiency, AWE’s
platform brings together innovative technical resources to
facilitate the adoption of water conservation programs,
cutting-edge research to address pressing challenges, and a
collaborative dialogue amongst stakeholders to further advance
water conservation and efficiency across North America.
www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org.
About The Scotts Miracle-Gro FoundationThe
mission of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation is to inspire, connect
and cultivate a community of purpose. The Foundation is deeply
rooted in helping create healthier communities, empower the next
generation and preserve our planet. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
organization that funds non-profit entities that support its core
initiatives in the form of grants, endowments and multi-year
capital gifts. For more information, visit
scottsmiraclegrofoundation.org.
Tom Matthews
Chief Communications Officer
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