A Coordinated Oregon Program for Conserving Energy and Water in Irrigated Agriculture

The Save Water/Save Energy Program developed in Oregon is a cooperative effort designed to assist and motivate irrigators to increase the efficiency of water application and energy use in irrigated agriculture. Entities involved in the cooperative program include local, state and federal resource conservation agencies; electric suppliers; irrigation districts; and individual irrigators. The Save Water/Save Energy Program is designed to take advantage of each energy and water conservation program and is planned to include a program web site, marketing of the program, training for program, and the use of technical coordinators of the energy and water-conservation programs of participating organizations. These coordinators are working to foster communication and education to achieve energy and conservation outcomes.