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The Road to Conservation Conservation Goals The goals of our water conservation program are to: • Decrease our water use by 30% by 2018. We hope to achieve this gradually by: o Decreasing the per capita water use by 5% per year over the first five years of the program. o Decreasing the per capital water use by 3% per year over the final five years. • Decrease overall water use so that, in the long -term, we can grow our population at a higher rate without increasing our water use. Other water providers have found that their water conservation programs generate the greatest water savings in the earlier years of the water conservation effort as we "pick the low hanging fruits" offered by programs and investments to increase efficiency. As time goes on, it becomes more and more difficult to squeeze more efficiencies out of our water use. The benefits of demand management will tend to take effect a little later in the plan cycle to be realized. It generally takes a greater upfront investment and the educational efforts needed to change life -long behaviors and Water Production & Conservation ** habits take longer 3500 and are a little o 3000 more challenging. U 2 500 Long term (greater than ten years) we hope to be able to grow our population at a higher rate than we have in the past without increasing =W o u. 2000 I= 1500 L V *; 1000 M 3: 500 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2015 2020 2025 Year I WP w/o Conservation our water use. I = = ' WP w /Conservation I This implies that we not only reduce our use per capita, but our overall use. If our population growth rate stays in the 1% to 1.5% per year this should be achievable, requiring a continued per capita reduction matching that of the population growth. Should the growth rate exceed 1.5% per year it will be more challenging but not impossible to achieve the overall goal. City of Alamosa I Water Conservation Plan I May 2007 1 Page 9 of 29