City of San Diego is offering generous rebates for Smart Irrigation Controllers like Cyber-Rain. All the information relating to guidelines and applying can be found here:
http://www.sandiego.gov/water/conservation/smartcontroller.shtml
Between rebates and water savings, Cyber-Rain can be free!  Some information from the site:
“Costs that are covered by the Smart Controller rebate:
Rebate covers the purchase price of one SWAT approved [...]

Who doesn’t like to save money? And who doesn’t like to save money and do something good for the environment? Many individuals have already reserved their rebate from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s Save a Buck and SoCal Water$mart programs, courtesy of the MWD. The MWD has been offering free rebates to those [...]

The pain of the California drought may soon lessen, thanks to the recent passage of five water bills. Senate Bills 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 address the three-year statewide drought and ways in which water usage and management can be addressed and improved. The name of the game is infrastructure organization and more conservative [...]

Great news: water use among Americans as a whole is decreasing! In a new study released by the United States Geological Survey, results show a trend of lowered water use, particularly within the last 30 years. According to the Associated Press, the report explains that “Americans are using less water per person now than they [...]

The next time you are on Sears.com, look around: you will see the Cyber-Rain XCI system there! The website of the large chain of anchor stores recently began to carry various models of the Cyber-Rain smart sprinkler controller. (Both the 16-zone and the 8-zone controllers may now be purchased through Sears.com or as always, through [...]

It’s raining outside: are your sprinklers on? With the Cyber-Rain system, they won’t be! The possibility of record-breaking rain levels this week in California reminds us that the time is right to consider upgrading your sprinkler system to one which helps conserve water. The Cyber-Rain smart sprinkler controller shuts off when rain is forecasted, [...]

It must be important if the legislator’s are working on a Sunday! On Sunday, October 11, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed California state representatives to come to an agreement over the water crisis in California. Another bone of contention which dominated the conversation rested on the fate of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Since tighter [...]

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is mulling over the idea of increasing water rates – the rationale for desired rate hike is to fund maintenance of the water infrastructure system, amid the recent spate of water main ruptures along such major streets as Coldwater Canyon and Hartsook Street in Los Angeles, [...]

They’re baaaack! The Metropolitan Water District’s SoCal Water$mart residential rebate program will officially be back up and running TODAY, September 21. The program had been temporarily on hold as program details were worked out, to make sure every consumer could receive their promised rebate.
For Smart Irrigation controllers, rebates start at $80 for residences on [...]

Congratulations to our friends at this week’s Water District of the Week, the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District (LVMWD)! Earlier this month, the LVMWD was awarded by the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA) for its outstanding contributions to water conservation and water-use education. At a gala in San Diego, [...]