2010-03-18

On March 18, 2010 the State of Georgia enacted the Water Stewardship Bill, a comprehensive law which requires higher efficiency standards for toilets, faucets, urinals and cooling towers, standardized water loss reporting by public water utilities, metering of multi-family, commercial and industrial construction, and a statewide outdoor watering schedule. Only two other states, California and Texas, have adopted similar high efficiency plumbing standards which take effect in 2014, but Georgia’s new law goes a step further by requiring compliance by July, 2012.  Georgia is also the first state to require by state law the sub-metering of multi-unit residential, commercial and industrial buildings in addition to billing based on the actual water use. 

We will report further on the Georgia legislation in our next newsletter.  Stay tuned!