Certified QWEL Landscape Water Auditor
  • Type Certification
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Paid
Additional Details

Certified QWEL Landscape Water Auditor

Issued by Santa Fe Community College

This badge shows successful completion of the Certified QWEL Landscape Water Auditor course. Earning this demonstrates that the badge-holder has the knowledge, skills, and abilities to assess the water usage and opportunities for water efficiency retrofits of onsite irrigation systems.

  • Type Certification
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Hours
  • Cost Paid
Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Explain water sources, typical water use patterns and the locally available water conservation programs
  • Create a plant water use budget
  • Perform an onsite landscape water use assessment
  • Recommend actions to reduce onsite irrigation water use
  • Recommend actions to improve the efficiency of the irrigation system
  • Set irrigation controllers to water the landscape in an efficient and effective way
  • Keep QWEL certification valid

Standards

Commercial QWEL Landscape Water Audit
The Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper training presents an affordable, proactive, local approach to reducing landscape water demand and is an EPA WaterSense labeled Professional Certification Program for irrigation system audits.