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<div>While it hasn't been examined recently, an Army Corps of
Engineers study from 1982? (help on the date anyone?) examined the
costs and general feasibility of pumping water from the Snake, from
Dworshak and from the N. Fk Palouse River to Moscow. All were
prohibitively expensive. It's a 2000' lift from the Snake or Dworshak
plus the pipeline.</div>
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<div>I've been advocating for the last year or more that PBAC members
impose a task on themselves to establish individual water budgets
based on the best currently available knowledge. Even if all they did
was say the amount we're pumping now is the amount we'll set for our
budget as "sustainable" (hardly a very defensible premise,
but it's a place to start), it would allow each entity to put costs to
acquiring new water, be it through conservation or new sources. My
guess is all of a sudden water conservation would be an economically
viable part of the cities and universities base program, not the
add-on it's generally treated as now.</div>
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<div>For an example, let's say a developer wanted to build 50 new
houses and it was going to take 5 million gallons/yr to supply them
with water (that's a real number based on average consumption rates
for a household of 4). Low flush toilets use 13,000 gallons/year less
than older toilets for a family of four. There are at least several
thousand old 5-7 gallon/flush toilets in Moscow houses. The City could
have a program where a developer could pay into a toilet replacement
fund to cover the cost of replacing enough toilets that his or her
development ended up water budget neutral. In this instance, the
developer would have to "buy" 384 low-flush toilets to
balance the water books. It would be significantly less costly to the
developer if the developer installed water saving devices and
appliances throughout the house and xeriscaped the yard as well.</div>
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<div>Let's make a water budget and stick to it!</div>
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<div>Mark Solomon</div>
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<div>At 4:00 PM -0700 4/24/06, Tom Ivie wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>What about pump stations and irrigation
districts? This is done in southern Idaho. They seem to be
able to pump out of the Snake up great distances to irrigate what
otherwise would be desert land. Could it be done here? <br>
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