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System Reliability and Water Conservation <br />White Paper Content (continued) <br />• Water Conservation and <br />Drought Response <br />(continued) <br />– Drought response <br />programs typically seek <br />immediate and temporary <br />reductions (behavioral) <br />– Technical savings can <br />usually best be achieved <br />through a long - term <br />conservation program <br />19 <br />System Reliability and Water Conservation <br />White Paper Content (continued) <br />• Water Conservation, Drought Response, Water Supply <br />Reliability, and Demand Hardening (continued) <br />– Customers who have reduced their demand can still achieve <br />behavioral reductions during a shortage <br />– By modeling the demand impacts of long - term conservation <br />programs on current conservation and the potential for drought <br />curtailment in new and existing customers it is possible for wat er <br />providers to evaluate what portion of achieved conservation <br />savings should be held to maintain (or improve) system reliabili ty <br />and what portion can be used to serve new customers <br />20 <br />10 <br />