Water restrictions in Mobile County, AL — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Alabama sets no statewide lawn-watering ban. In Mobile County, restrictions come from your water provider, triggered when the state Office of Water Resources issues a drought declaration under Ala. Code §9-10C-8.
There is no county water utility with authority over the whole of Mobile County; supply comes from the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System and smaller rural systems drawing on Gulf Coast aquifers. Alabama's Office of Water Resources, under the Drought Planning and Response Act, issues drought declarations that grade conditions from a watch to an emergency, and §9-10C-8 gives it that authority based on stream flow, reservoir, and rainfall data. Those declarations are advisory at the state level, but water providers translate them into mandatory odd-even or day-of-week irrigation schedules and, in a severe drought, outdoor-watering bans. The Gulf's heavy rainfall makes hard restrictions rare, but the schedule that binds an address is set by its water system.
Watering outside your provider's declared drought schedule draws warnings, surcharges, and escalating fines under the utility's rules, and can lead to service restriction. There is no state penalty on the homeowner directly.
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