Spokane leaders are contemplating how to encourage conservation in a city that uses more water per capita than 98% of the United States.
On Thursday, the city’s Water Resource Collaboration Group outlined an ambitious plan to cut water use by 25%, a goal described as “both ambitious and achievable” by Kara Odegard, the city’s manager of sustainable initiatives.
Even if that goal is met, Spokanites already use so much water that the plan would still leave the city in the 96th percentile nationally, based on 2015 United States Geological Survey data.
It’s with that in mind that the group set a 25% conservation target, which is a notable increase
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