As the San Antonio City Manager, Sheryl Sculley, made the official declaration of Stage One on April 10th, SeaWorld was listening. Several of SeaWorld's management had already developed the park's Water Conservation Plan and had submitted the plan to the San Antonio Water System.
Drought restrictions for San Antonio, which already has a year-round conservation ordinance, are quite stringent. Many of the restrictions, however, are everyday practices for our park. Under restrictions, water waste is prohibited; at SeaWorld we are always watching how our water is being used and we are always finding new ways to reuse our water or reduce consumption. SeaWorld reduces our landscape watering by at least 20% in our formal park area, and our "back of the house" area goes without water. Instead of going green, we go brown!
We also use the drought to our advantage to help educate our team members and our visitors. We use our condensation water in our park fountains and have signs placed in front of the fountain that lets our team and guests know that we are in drought conditions and encourage them to conserve water.
Sign in front of our main park fountain, Compass RoseThis life-giving natural resource has always been an integral part of our park and we consistently look for new and innovative ways to save our water. We love the opportunity to spread the word on how others can conserve water too! What are some of the ways that you can save water?
