SAWS will pay you to hold off on your summer planting

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is parched for rain in 2025, with just 5.61 inches having fallen through April and all of Bexar County still in Exceptional Drought status—the U.S. Drought Monitor’s most severe classification.

Historically, we get closer to 8.5 inches of rain for the first four months of the year.

To help alleviate the city’s thirst (and potentially prevent you from falling from the heat), San Antonio Water System is asking that you hold off on summer planting—and offering up to $600 to homeowners if you do…

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