EPA Announces Cal Water’s 2024 WaterSense® Award of Excellence Winner for the Second Consecutive Year

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NYSE: CWT—For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has honored California Water Service (Cal Water) with WaterSense^® Award for Excellence in Promoting WaterSense Labeled Products. EPA awarded the 2024 national award to Cal Water for the agency’s commitment and partnership in helping customers use water more efficiently.

This award recognizes a partner that goes above and beyond to help consumers understand the value of water use efficiency and aligns with EPA’s focus on assisting in these efforts. Last year, more than 1,660 WaterSense-labeled, Cal Water-labeled, Utilities services were installed through Cal Water’s free Smart Landscape Adjustment Program, which provides assessments and repair/renovation services by a certified irrigation professional through a WaterSense-approved program, and through the utility’s comprehensive conservation rebate program. Weather-based irrigation controllers and 8,000 WaterSense labeled spray sprinkler heads were installed in the fields. Additionally, beyond the free, high-efficiency savings kits already offered to residential customers, Cal Water distributed kits to sixth-graders to take home and provide their families with WaterSense-labeled shower heads and faucet aerators for use.

In total, WaterSense-labeled devices installed in customers’ homes and businesses in 2023 through Cal Water’s conservation rebate programs, Smart Landscape Adjustment Program, and conservation kits will save an estimated 395.1 million gallons of water over the life of the devices.

“I believe our partnership with WaterSense strengthens our efforts to help our customers make conservation a way of life, which is especially important as our changing climate brings increasingly frequent and longer, hotter, drier year cycles,” said Cal Water Chairman and CEO Marty Kropelnicki. ” he said. “We appreciate the recognition the EPA has given us and are committed to being a responsible steward of our limited water resources through our comprehensive approach to efficiency, conservation and sustainability.”

About California Water Service

California Water Service provides high-quality, reliable water utilities to more than 2 million people statewide through 497,700 service connections. Cal Water’s purpose is to improve the quality of life of customers and communities. To do this, it invests responsibly in water and wastewater infrastructure, sustainability initiatives and community well-being. The company’s more than 1,100 employees live by a strong set of core values ​​and share a commitment to protecting the planet, caring for people and operating with the highest integrity. The company was named among “America’s Most Responsible Companies” and “The World’s Most Trustworthy Companies” by . news weekBest Workplace and Great Place to Work^®. You can find more information at www.calwater.com.

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