Ever-increasing costs and limited resources are driving municipalities, real-estate developers, and commercial landscapes to seek innovative ways to reduce water usage. The Lake Forest Keys community in Southern California's city of Lake Forest has 500 homes and a 36-acre lake surrounded by acres of irrigated landscape. In March 2000, the development's watering system began failing. At the time, the system had no sensors to detect broken sprinkler heads or irrigation lines. Instead of continuing to repair the outdated system, John Dennis, assistant general manager for the development, opted for replacement. "With 400 valves and weather that can change from day to day, we were over-watering much of the time. I knew a computerized controller system could solve that," he said.
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