Brochure: Help conserve our city's water supply. By converting the landscaping in your yard to a water-conserving landscape, you can greatly reduce your outdoor water use. A water-conserving landscape is natural and attractive, and it also saves you money. Criticism: for most people with yards, the savings from converting to a water-conserving landscape cannot justify the expense of new landscaping, since typically the conversion. would save less than twenty dollars on a homeowner's yearly water bills.