Our local newspaper recently published a story that said that the water consumption in Albuquerque had dropped 19% over the last 10 or 20 years (I don't remember exactly which). The important thing to understand here is it dropped in real terms not just in per capita terms.
That means that even though we've had a lot of growth here, the rate of water use savings has been greater than the increase of water use from additional population. There are a lot of Western cities that have decreased per capita water use but their total water use has been undone by population growth.
Good job Albuquerque!
And now back to our ex-University President, Internet prostitution scandal...much more representative of our city.
5 comments:
Hey, that *is* something to be proud of.
Woohoo!!! Yay for saving the water! Or is everyone switching to bottled water and taking fewer showers...?
You live in a desert and will run out of water. Just accept it!
that is really something!! Well done ABQ.
Wow... that is impressive. It's hard to get that many people on the bandwagon at once.
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