WaterNow and Western Resource Advocates (WRA) partnered with the City of Golden to develop Colorado’s first graywater laundry-to-landscape (L2L) ordinance, to reduce water usage by allowing laundry water to irrigate landscaping.

Golden serves about 20,000 people across 9.7 square miles and, like much of the Front Range, faces the challenges of meeting water demands against the pressure of a growing population and ongoing drought conditions.

Golden sought to incentivize laundry-to-landscape systems as a water-savings strategy, as part of the City’s goal to reduce water use by 15% per capita by 2030 and improve drought resilience.