Utah Leaks $30 Billion in Water (15 Deer Creeks) Enough for 4 Million New People

Utah Leaks 15 Deer Creeks or $34 Billion in Water Enough for 4 Million New People.

Utah’s Deer Creek Reservoir has an operational capacity of 32 billion gallons of water. All Utah’s 246 cities use 325 billion gallons or 10 Deer Creeks. All Utah Farms use 1,600 billion gallons or 50 Deer Creeks.

Surveyed City water lines leak range from 3.5% to 35%. Farm canals leak up to 33%. On average, Utah leaks 25% of its water (500 billion gallons or 15 Deer Creeks or 17 Lake Powell Pipelines).

For context, Salt Lake City itself uses 16 billion gallons or ½ a Deer Creek, sells 8 billion gallons or 1/4 of a Deer Creek as “surplus” for $25 million, and leaks 2 billion gallons annually.

Who knew Utah leaks enough water for 21 new cities the size our great Salt Lake City?

Put in terms of Lake Powell Pipeline dollars ($20,000 per acre-foot of developed water), Utah is leaking $30 Billion in water.

Millions are spent on water shaming the public for a dripping facet will slogans like “Slow the Flow” while city water lines leak billions of gallons.

Spending billions to develop new water to put into city pipes and irrigation canals leaking 25% of their water makes no sense.

Why isn’t the State Water Engineer collecting existing water leak data from cities on its annual Water Use Data From?

Why isn’t the State Water Engineer collecting existing indoor water use data form Utah’s 1 million water meters for free instead of asking for $5 million to “study water use”? This Public Record’s data is free for the asking.

Please Call the Governor’s Office at 801-538-100. Please ask our State Water Engineer to collected leak and existing use data from cities and water companies. Please reduce the city and canal water leaks before putting new billion dollar Lake Powell and Bear River water into systems leaking 25% of their water.