Reducing Your Water Use

What is AMI?
AMI is an integrated system of smart meters, communications networks, and data management systems that enables automated, two-way communication between a smart water meter and a utility.  

To summarize, utilizing AMI for the water meters throughout the city will allow both you and the city to gain an accurate reading from your water meter.  AMI will give you near real time access to meter readings, consumption trends and can alert you in the event of a leak. These features will give you better control over how you manage water use without the need to physically get to the meter. 

Click here to access your water meter customer portal

AMI

What are the benefits of AMI?

  • Timely Accurate Reads: AMI produces more accurate reads. - AMI systems have a 99.9% accuracy rate in near real time. This will allow accurate and efficient billing.  

  • Reduction of CO2 emissions: AMI enables utilities to check meter status and perform an array of diagnostics, which reduces the number of times a truck is sent to the field and lessens CO2 emissions.

  • Centralized monitoring: Collecting meter read data and the use of state-of-the-art analytics enables real-time leak detection, customized usage notifications, final bills processing.

  • Increased Field Service Safety: This enhanced communication increases safety for service crews and customers alike while reducing costs of unnecessary field visits


Why Conserve?
The City of Sierra Madre continues to meet our community’s water demands. While our 2020 Urban Water Management Plan found that we can meet the City’s water demands to withstand five continuous years of drought conditions, conservation is the most efficient and least expensive means for our community to preserve our water supply in the long-term. 

Click here for tips to reduce your water usage:
Save water in your home
Save water in your yard
Additional water-saving tips
Water savings at work
Water savings in multi-family dwellings

 

Other Resources:
California DWR Conservation Tips
Calscape – California Native Plant Society
Theodor Payne Foundation
EPA Watersense



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