New app! My Water Advisor 2.0 by MasterMeter can help you monitor your own water usage. 

State-Mandated watering days and times are no longer in effect. Please continue to use our precious resource wisely.

We are currently in Stage 2 of our Water Shortage Contingency Plan and will keep you advised of any changes to this status.

The continued efforts by Quartz Hill Water District residents have shown monumental drops in usage, conserving 18% in 2022. These efforts, combined with the District’s strategic planning and fiscal responsibility, allowed us to meet the strict regulations imposed by the State without implementing monetary penalties or drought surcharges.

From 2020 to 2022, California saw the three driest years in its history, resulting in historic low deliveries from the State Water Project and State-Mandated drought restrictions. However, winter storms have helped restore depleted reservoirs, boosted snowpack in the Sierra Nevada and allowed the state to increase the amount of water available to Southern California for this year.

Despite the improved water supply, we must continue with the voluntary phase of our State approved Water Shortage Contingency Plan. We ask all our customers to use water as efficiently as possible and continue to voluntarily reduce water use.

Previously, the Governor had proclaimed a Drought State of Emergency and Executive Order N-7-22 (both also on this page), calling for water usage reduction up to 20%. Our goal was to meet the requirements set forth by the state and ensure our ratepayers have sustainable water for all essential uses, and in the bet case scenario, for all their uses.  

Thank you for the efforts to be conservation minded. 

The following wasteful water uses will still be prohibited: 

• The use of potable water for washing sidewalks, driveways, buildings, structures, patios, parking lots, or other hard surfaced areas, except in cases where health and safety are at risk.
• The use of potable water that results in flooding or runoff in gutters or streets.
• The use of potable water, except with the use of a positive shut-off nozzle, for the individual private washing of motor vehicles.
• The use of water to irrigate turf and ornamental landscapes during and within 48 hours after measurable rainfall of at least one-fourth of one inch of rain.
• The use of potable water for irrigation of ornamental turf on public street medians.
• The use of potable water for street cleaning or construction purposes, unless no other source of water or other method can be used or if necessary, to protect the health and safety of the public.
• The use of portable water for decorative fountains or the filling or topping-off of decorative lakes or ponds, with exceptions for those decorative fountains, lakes, or ponds which utilize recycled water.

While we are not currently offering any “turf buy back” or lawn replacement programs, our neighboring agency Antelope Valley Resource Conservation District does. You can find more information on their website. https://www.avrcd.org/grass-reduction-program

• Not sure how to read your meter or what those numbers mean? This form can help! It provides an easy way to monitor your own water use on a daily basis.

• What does a 20% reduction in water use look like? Click the button below for more information

• Do I have a leak?
• How do I read my meter?
• Thanks to OTAY Water District.

• How to detect a toilet leak. 
• Thanks to Concord General Services.

• DWP video that discusses where out water comes from.    While not all of this information is the same for QHWD, the main idea and how we get water is pertinent. Thanks to tadapix and LADWP we can demonstrate infrastructure and how water we need to purchase gets here through the Calfornia Aqueduct (State Water Project).