Water restrictions in Warren, MI — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Macomb County government does not run a countywide watering or drought-restriction program. Drinking water is supplied wholesale by the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) and delivered by local municipal systems, so any lawn-watering or sprinkling limits come from your city, village, or township, not the County.
There is no Macomb County ordinance restricting residential lawn watering. In southeast Michigan, water is sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River, treated and sold wholesale by the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), then distributed by each municipality's own water department (for example Macomb Township DPW and city systems in Warren, Sterling Heights, and Clinton Township). Because supply is abundant and Great Lakes-based, blanket drought watering bans are rare; when limits occur they are set by the local water provider, often as odd/even sprinkling or peak-demand rules in summer. The County's water-related role is stormwater and drainage, handled by the Public Works Office under the Michigan Drain Code and the Soil Erosion Ordinance, not potable-water demand management. To learn
Any penalty for over-watering or violating a sprinkling restriction is imposed by the local municipal water utility (for example fines, surcharges, or service warnings under the utility's rules), not by Macomb County. The County does not issue watering citations. Illicit
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