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<br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />For many years the primary emphasis was on managing the water supply, although <br />occasional restrictions vvere placed on the demand for water in response to supply <br />shortages. The Environmental Protection Agency's recornrendation in March 1990 to <br />reduce water use by another ten percent by January 1, 1999, continues to change the <br />current view of water conservation. <br /> <br />Green Mountain will spend the next 3 to 5 years designing a program to promote <br />and encourage water conservation. The program will be designed to produce a reliable, <br />significant increase in usable water by discouraging waste of the resource. The plan also <br />will include more efficient water use in irrigating parKs, parKways, highway medians and <br />shoulders, school grounds, and other large landscaped areas. The water conservation <br />plan will include a program for monitoring conservation so that savings attributable to the <br />programs can be recognized and quantified. In addition, the district also will continue to <br />cooperate with other entities in I\I1etro Water Conservation, I nc. to promote wise water use <br />throughout the entire urban area. <br /> <br />Purpose <br /> <br />Today both reliable demand and reliable supply management are integral parts of <br />. n ------ - - -Green -l\i1ounlam's -planning process~ TFie purpose-orthis VViJJer ose EfIcfency Plan IS lei <br />spell out a general direction for efficient water use by all the district's customers, in both <br />the short-tenn and the long-tenn future. <br /> <br />4 <br />