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Show a * What is repayment of $749,500,000 going to mean in increased taxes to an a l - * $ ready overtaxed public? Should the public pay for the most expensive water * $ $ ever developed by the Federal government - when cheaper alternatives are *' * $ available but aren't being considered? * More Cost Effective Alternatives Dual water management systems - which u t i l i z e low quality water and spare free flowing streams - are feasible in many situations in the west. This system u t i l i z e s low quality water, which is r e l a t i v e l y cheap and p l e n t i ful , for i r r i g a t i n g lawns, gardens, orchards, and farmlands; high quality .... water, which is expensive and scarce, is reserved for drinking, cooking and other domestic and industrial high quality water purposes. Such a system has been in use in Bountiful, Utah, north of Salt Lake City, for 20 years. People are saving money - lots of i t . Without the dual system, homeowners i r r i g a t i ng with high quality water just for July, would pay four times the total yearly b i l l of the dual water system user! The "For more growth - add more water" philosophy is not substantiated in practice. Bountiful's dual water system operator said, when asked what the c i t y would be l i ke today without this system, said, "The population would be half what i t is today!" In spite of this opportunity , a $40,000,000 Salt Lake County dual water plan is f i l e d away in a drawer pending completion of the CUP Bonneville Unit - a project designed to supply high quality water to a l l type western Utah water users. Efficient State management of 125,000 acre-feet of wasted or unused stored water, cheaper costs to a l l users, a vast 60,000,000 acre-feet of Salt Lake Valley ground water source unexplored - a l l go by the board in order to develop Utah's long held dream - the CUP! FROM LEAKS Water conservation in homes, in agriculture, in W A T E R W A S T E D INTONE M O N T H industry- measures being widely recognized in the nation - are not initiated even though a massive and unneeded water _£» development destroys 12 scenic fly fishing rivers in the Uintah Mountains. It is well known that introduction of new plumbing fixtures in homes - for showers, faucets, and toilets, in comgination with leak repair - can cut residential use by 36-68%. Reforms in outdoor water use by homeowners, some 40% of their supply, could include use of lower quality water and adoption of arid country vegetation . As a result of the Clean Water Act, industrial water water withdrawals are dropping dramatically becasue industry finds it is cheaper to recycle water many times prior to treating it for discharge. The Water Resources Council has projected a drop in industrial water withdrawals from 55 billion gallons a day to 25 billion by 1985. Further decreases are projected by the year 2000 despite anticipated vigorous expansion of the manufacturing sector. Projections of industrial water demand by the Water and Power Resources Service are misleading. WPRS uses industrial supply based on use of new, high quality water, only. |
