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<br />information tells high water users how much more water they use than the average household <br />would and how much more money they spend on water. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />After lengthy discussions between the City and the BECC, an equation was included in the <br />brochure that the recipients could use to figure out how much water they were using on their <br />lawn. The opinion of the BECCand the City of Westminster clerks was that this equation would <br />prove too difficult for most residents and would be ignored. This opinion proved to be true after <br />reading the survey responses of the residents who received the brochure. With personal <br />assistance, residents seem more likely to do the calculation. <br /> <br />The completed brochure was then sent to the top 50 randomly-selected water users within the <br />City of Westminster and was followed up with the survey done by the CD students. <br /> <br />3) Identification and Tracking of High Water Users <br /> <br />Fifty Westminster residents were randomly selected to receive the brochure from a pool of the <br />top 500 residential water users in the City. Average annual outdoor water use (calculated by <br />subtracting estimated indoor water use from total annual use) is shown for the "control" group of <br />the top users minus the 50 brochure recipients and for the brochure recipients for years 1997 and <br />1998 in the chart below. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Average Outdoor Usage 1997 & 1998 <br /> <br />250 <br /> <br /> <br />200 <br /> <br />150 <br /> <br />100 <br /> <br />50 <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />Top 450 (minus brochure recipients) <br /> <br />6.4% Difference <br /> <br /> <br />1997 1998 <br /> <br />50 Brochure Recipients <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />As is evident from the chart, outdoor use has decreased slightly in both groups from 1997 to <br />1998. Based upon these figures, it does not appear that the brochure had any effect on the <br />brochure group's water usage as compared to the control group of non-brochure recipients. <br /> <br />5 <br />