Liquid Gold: Canadian Town KNOWS How to Manage Its Precious Water (GlobeAndMail)
(April 22, 2009, GlobeAndMail)
“We have to say kudos to the province for recognizing our rivers face challenges from withdrawal,” he says. But it also brings challenges for towns like his that rely on rivers for water. For most of the last decade, Okotoks has been Canada’s second fastest-growing municipality and expects to add another 9,000 residents by 2015.
Okotoks is also one of the province’s leaders in water conservation, and has cut per capita consumption from 450-500 litres per day in the 1990s to a mere 333 litres. The town has replaced most of its old cast iron water pipes with new plastic ones. Together with a new computer monitoring system, and replacing 500 leaky water meters, that’s cut losses due to leaks from about 25 per cent of the total to less than 5 per cent, Ms. Heffernan says.
New or renovated houses also must use low-flow toilets and faucet aerators to save water.
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