{"id":7618,"date":"2005-01-25T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/25\/not-since-1969.html"},"modified":"2014-11-23T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T15:21:00","slug":"not_since_1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/not_since_1969.html","title":{"rendered":"Not since 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36~53~2672153,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"> Drought-inspired conservation has reduced metro Denver&#8217;s water consumption to levels not seen since 1969, despite a 65 percent growth in the number of customers over that span.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Water delivered just 59.4 billion gallons last year, 22.6 billion gallons fewer than the utility did before the onset of drought in 2000, new agency numbers show.  &#8220;It&#8217;s astonishing,&#8221; Liz Gardener, Denver Water&#8217;s conservation manager, said of the 28 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p>Similar savings have been noted in Aurora and Colorado Springs, the Front Range&#8217;s two other municipal giants.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, fixed costs to the water utilities haven&#8217;t gone down by that much, meaning that water rates will continue to rise.  And there&#8217;s some question &#8212; between summer water use surcharges and no-water days and a summer that ended up wetter than expected &#8212; how much of that drop will continue next year.  But it&#8217;s still sort of remarkable &#8212; and promising, given that the population isn&#8217;t likely to drop any time soon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Drought-inspired conservation has reduced metro Denver&#8217;s water consumption to levels not seen since 1969, despite a 65 percent growth in the number of customers over that span. 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