Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-25 | Page 12 | Great Waste of Water

I Great Waste of Water. In speaking of conditions generally in Salt La,kc, Mr. Hines says the people waste twice as much water as they urfe and he has the figures to prove his assertions. as-sertions. He places the amount of water wa-ter wasted at 75 per cent. Experts nave placed the amount of water necessary to a person in a city at 100 gallons per day. This Is an ample allowance and allows 25 per cent for waste.' The residents resi-dents of Salt Lake,- says Mr. Hines, use 220 gallons per capita per day when the water is at its lowest ebb. He places Ihf minimum flow of water for the whole year at 13,000.000 gallons per day and says tills should be more than sufficient for a city of 175,000 Inhabitants- In support of this statement Mr. Hines cites reports showing that Providence, Provi-dence, with a population of 197.000, uses but slightly over 1-1,000,000 gallons per day. He can show similar reports of other cities In all parts of the United States. The superintendent said: "To get at the needs of a family, of say five persons, having a lawn of two hundred square yars, house supplied with hot and cold water, bath, water-closet water-closet and one laundry tub, 1 would place the actual needs of this family as follows: For bathing, 30 gallon?; dririklng, 5 gallons; cooking, 15 gallons; closet, 25 gallons; laundry and dishwashing, dish-washing, 35 gallons, or a total dally use of 110 gallons. Tf the lawn be wet 150 times during the year, which in my Opinion is a liberal allowance, 450 gallons gal-lons of water' would be used for each time. This would bring ,yp the total consumption for this family, to about 103,150 gallons a year, or a per capita dally consumption of CO callons aniece.