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<br />F. Dissemination of infonnation regarding water-use efficiency measures, <br />including by public education, customer water use audits, and water-saving <br />demonstrations: (Continued) <br /> <br />Each and every year the Board participates in "National Drinking Water Week", <br />offering tours of Pueblo's Water Treatment facility to school children and the <br />general public alike. These tours include numerous demonstrations of water <br />related equipment and technologies. Efficient water use information is available <br />and is distributed to participants throughout the day. <br /> <br />Annual tours offer the public and Board employees educational opportunities to <br />learn about Pueblo's Water System and the Board's efficient use oftheir water. <br />These annual tours include: <br /> <br />Tours of Pueblo's Water Treatment Facility <br />An Annual 2-day Bus Tour of Pueblo's Transmountain Water <br />System for the public <br />New Employee Tours of the Municipal Water System <br />Employee Tours of the Transmountain Water System <br /> <br />The Board provides publications and brochures offering efficient water use tips and <br />other miscellaneous water related information. These brochures/publications <br />include: <br />Efficient Water Use/Conservation tips inserted in the monthly water <br />bills <br />Winterizing tips inserted in monthly bills <br />Home leak detection tips inserted in monthly bills <br /> <br />G. Water Rate structures designed to encourage water use efficiency in a <br />fiscally responsible manner: <br /> <br />In the 1960's and 1970's, the Board's water rate was designed around a "decreasing <br />block rate". This rate actually gave larger water users a discount for using large <br />quantities of water. In some respects, it actually penalized the smaller water user. <br />Needless to say, this rate structure generated revenues for the Board but did <br />nothing to encourage efficient use of water. In the 1980's the Board took a closer <br />look at their rate structure and decided to change to a Uniform Rate which the <br />Board uses today. This uniform rate structure encourages and promotes the <br />efficient use of water and eliminates the previous incentives to large water users. <br /> <br />-10- <br />