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San Diego’s 20 gallon challenge: Water authority asks everyone to reduce water use

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 28, 2007 at 1:56 pm

From the North County Times:

Officials with the county agency will officially announce today what they are calling the “20-gallon challenge,” calling on every resident to reduce by 20 gallons the amount of water they use. Most people use about 180 gallons a day, an authority spokesman said.

The water agency serves as the wholesale water supplier for 24 member water agencies in the San Diego region. The water authority appeal follows calls from other water agencies in the state for their customers to reduce their water consumption as the region faces the prospect of future water shortages, an authority spokesman said Wednesday.

The Colorado River provides 60 percent of the region’s water supply and is in the throes of an eight-year drought. In addition, the past two years have been two of the driest on record in Southern California and for the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies 40 percent of the region’s water needs. “If we are faced with another dry year or multiple dry years then we are going to have to save as much water in storage as possible,” water authority spokesman John Liarakos said Wednesday. “We don’t know what is going to happen.”

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June 28, 2007 · Filed Under Colorado River Basin, San Diego

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