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System Reliability and Water Conservation <br />Memorandum 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 water <br />providers to evaluate what portion of achieved conservation <br />savings should be held to maintain (or improve) system reliability <br />and what portion can be used to serve new customers <br />19 <br />System Reliability and Water Conservation <br />Memorandum Content (continued) <br />•Water Conservation, <br />Drought Response, <br />Water Supply Reliability, <br />and Demand Hardening <br />–Since conservation savings <br />are achieved by existing <br />customers it is important <br />that the supply reliability for <br />these customers not be <br />negatively impacted as <br />new customers are added <br />to a system <br />20 <br />10 <br />