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ST. GEORGE — While the onset of colder months may not be the time people usually think about water issues, water districts across the state continue to stress the need for water conservation in various ways. But what else are those agencies doing to secure water for future use?
In the case of the Washington County Water Conservancy District, various projects are in the works that, while projected to take multiple years to complete, are anticipated to help keep the county's water supply viable in the face of continuing growth.
One of the bigger projects involves the creation of a regional secondary water system that would help replace the use of culinary, or drinking quality water, for outdoor watering with secondary, or irrigation-quality water. It is estimated that up to 60% of the drinking water in the county is used for outdoor watering, so beginning to replace that with a different water source will help prolong the county's own drinking water supply.
"We've been planning it for years," Zach Renstrom, general manager of the Washington County Conservancy Water District, told St. George News in a recent interview. "We're spending a lot of our time focused on that."
