Denver water use dropping
Posted on | November 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Bruce Finley in the Denver Post tallies up another western city cutting municipal water use, demonstrating that, for city water users, this is a tractable problem:
Water-saving efforts already have dropped metro Denver residents’ overall average daily usage to 85 gallons, down from 104 gallons in 2001.
Only one city better than Denver in Finley’s review of residential water use:
Albuquerque at 70 gallons a day.
Note that Finley’s talking here about withdrawals, and doesn’t get into the extent to which a portion of cities’ indoor water is reused after treatment, with the exception of a nod toward the way Las Vegas handles its wastewater.
Related posts:
- The Most Water Efficient Way to Wash Your Car
- Water in the Albuquerque Mayoral Race
- Adventures in Air Travel Cont…
- Denver Saves Water, Raises Rates
- Desalination
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
One Response to “Denver water use dropping”
Leave a Reply
November 3rd, 2012 @ 10:58 pm
Still has to get quite a bit lower though, John, especially if fracking is going to continue to be allowed.
Best,
D