Colorado Water
The Rocky Mountain News has a nifty lookup application for water restritions [April 17, 2004, "Water restrictions"]. Here's a link to Denver's.
Denver Water and other Front Range utilities are spending big money to teach their customers the value of conservation, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 17, 2004, "The cost of conservation"]. From the article, "Colorado utility officials point out that three years of strict watering limits have helped a number of communities reduce water use, at least temporarily, by 10 percent to as much as 30 percent. And they note that conservation spending doesn't always translate into lower water use. Still, Colorado cities have some of the highest rates of residential water use in the country, several surveys show. Denver Water residential customers, for instance, use about 159 gallons per person per day, according to Smart Water, a regional analysis conducted by the Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates, a conservation think tank. Highlands Ranch and Boulder use about 140. Las Vegas, a self-confessed guzzler, uses more than 200 gallons per person per day, the Smart Water report found. But other Western cities - some with more rainfall than Denver, some with less - show use closer to 100 gallons per person per day. Westminster is one. It's kept single family use low with the help of an aggressive recycling program, according to conservation staffer Stuart Feinglas. A small residential community in Tucson, known as Civano, uses even less. Designed with small lawns, desert landscapes and super-efficient water fixtures, its homes average just 52 gallons per person per day."
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