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Clinch Valley News
Tazewell, Jeffersonville, Tazewell County, Virginia
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W. F. Rockwell, Jr., president of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., advocates universal water metering to curb waste and extend dwindling supplies, citing a 50% reduction in U.S. per capita consumption from 150 gallons daily when meters are installed in unmetered areas.
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STRETCH DWINDLING
WATER SUPPLIES
(By W. F. Rockwell, Jr., President Rockwell Manufacturing Co., writing in The Wall Street Journal.)
How often have you turned on a water faucet without getting water? Probably not very often.
One proved way to stretch dwindling water supplies is to discourage water waste through universal metering. Water Consumption in the United States averages 150 gallons per day, per person. When water meters are installed in a previously unmetered community, per capita water consumption decreases by about fifty percent.
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per capita water consumption decreases by about fifty percent
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One proved way to stretch dwindling water supplies is to discourage water waste through universal metering. Water Consumption in the United States averages 150 gallons per day, per person. When water meters are installed in a previously unmetered community, per capita water consumption decreases by about fifty percent.