Evaluating Water Utilities: The Texas Water Conservation Scorecard

摘要

Water conservation is critical to meeting current and future demands for water in the United States and globally. It used to be that, other things being equal, the volume of water needed to serve a population increased as a community grew. Water use trends in recent years, however, have demonstrated that even with population increases, reasonable in nonessential water use and improved efficiency have kept demands for water much lower than would have been expected in the past. At a time when the cost of developing new infrastructure continues to climb, and opposition to many types of water projects remains strong, using conservation to help address water demands is an important tool for water utility managers.