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Water Conservation Rally in Washington, D.C. |
5/1/2008
150 members of the PHCC (Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors) held a rally at
Senate Park next to the U.S. Capitol. All Americans were encouraged
to begin conserving water.
For more information, go to:
http://phcc.files.cms-plus.com/PDFs/RallyPressRelease.pdf
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Water Price Increase in Maryland |
1/15/2008
"The water utility serving most of Montgomery
and
Prince George
's counties is proposing a rate increase ranging from $150 to $225 each quarter.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission says money is needed to replace the
disintegration of an aging network of water and sewer pipes.
The plan calls for customer rates to rise 9.5 percent in July.
Residents also would pay an additional $20 a month for the next 10 years to speed
the replacement of the system's 10,800 miles of underground water and sewer pipes.
Rates would also go up each year, including an 11.5 percent hike next year.
WSSC General Manager Andrew Brunhart says
there were more than 2,100 pipe bursts last year, leaving customers without water
and tie up traffic during repairs. "
For more information, go to:
http://wjz.com/watercooler/water.increase.bill.2.629891.html
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State of
North Carolina Utilities Commission |
9/13/2007
Order Requiring Curtailment of Non-essential Water Usage
"...all 100 counties have been declared to be under drought conditions..."
"The drought across much of the state is the worst in recorded history."
For more information, go to: http://ncuc.commerce.state.nc.us/cgi-bin/webview/senddoc.pgm?dispfmt=&itype=Q&authorization=&parm2=ZBAAAA79270B&parm3=000127731
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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2006
WaterSense(tm) program is launched. This is an EPA partnership
that "seeks to protect the future of our nation's water supply by promoting water
efficiency and enhancing the market for water-efficient products, programs, and
practices."
For more information on water efficiency, go to WaterSense(tm):
http://www.epa.gov/owm/water-efficiency
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
1/6/2005
Promoting Water Conservation in Multi-Family Housing
"The findings of a new two-year study of water billing practices in the multi-family
residential sector, released on August 30, 2004, show the water conservation
benefits of submetering."
For more information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/EPA-WATER/2005/January/Day-11/w499.htm
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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12/23/2003
Revised Policy on Water Submetering
In order to promote water conservation, EPA is changing its regulatory policy under
the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) regarding apartment buildings and other properties
with similar characteristics to apartment buildings. Property owners who install
submeters and bill their tenants for actual water consumption will no longer be
treated as public water systems subject to the full regulatory requirements of the
SDWA.
EPA's revised policy regarding submetering only applies to properties that already
receive water
from a regulated public water system.
This change will encourage more tenant submetering by removing
the potential regulatory burden currently faced by apartment building owners and
other similar property owners who install submeters and bill tenants separately
for water.
This policy is one way that EPA continues to promote water efficiency,
an important part of watershed protection and infrastructure cost reduction.
The final policy is available at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/new.html
or you can call Ronald Bergman at (202) 564-3823.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
12/23/2003
Applicability of the Safe Drinking Water Act to submetered properties
" Throughout the country, submetering of apartment buildings has been found
to be an effective but little-used tool to support water conservation.
Water conservation is an integral part of watershed protection, particularly in
arid and drought-stricken areas. In addition to helping reduce the risk of water
shortages, water conservation also provides other important benefits. Water conservation
helps ensure in-stream flows, thereby providing protection for ecosystems, which
can become out of balance when demands stress water resources. Water conservation
also helps reduce stress on water supply and wastewater infrastructure making them
less prone to failure. Further, the use of submeters to measure water consumption
is a necessary pre-requisite to achieving full-cost and conservation
pricing."
For more information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/EPA-WATER/2003/December/Day-23/w31588.htm
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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3/13/1998
Submetering Water Systems
"...we support the practice of submetering to encourage water conservation and to
provide an equitable method of distributing costs..."
For more information, go to: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/wsg/wsg_118.pdf
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National Multi Housing Council |
1998
EPA Safe Drinking Water Act
"Submetering as a tool to encourage water conservation was not envisioned at the
time of the passage of the original SDWA. In light of this, the state of Florida
has defined the term "sale" so that a property owner who submeters the water distributed
on his property and subsequently receives payment for this service is not considered
to have "sold" water. This regulatory definition is a useful model
for other states considering revising regulations to facilitate the adoption of
water submetering by property owners."
For more information, go to: http://www.nmhc.org/Content/ServeContent.cfm?IssueID=132&ContentItemID=1284
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