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EBMUD wastes thousands of gallons of water a day

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 12, 2008 at 7:47 am

From the Bay Area’s KTVU Channel 2:

The East Bay Municipal Water District (EBMUD) is demanding that its million-plus customers conserve water, threatening financial penalties if they don’t comply. But at the same time, the utility is wasting thousands of gallons of water each day, right down the drain.

As KTVU’s John Sasaki reports from Lafayette, a drain pipe that runs off the Lafayette Aqueduct dumps water straight into a storm drain.

A nearby resident calls the leak “disturbing,” but what’s even more disturbing is how much water is being wasted. Apartment manager Mark Hurst decided to measure the amount of water going down the drain. He used a “five gallon bucket and a stopwatch. And we came up with 25-plus gallons a minute. That’s 36,000 gallons a day.”

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July 12, 2008 · Filed Under Conservation, Other Water Agencies

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