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Show Counting Buv Our Wonderful Water Supply What is our most vital utility? It you guessed the telephone, electricity or gas, you're wrong. It's water, and it happens to be the least expensive utility that Americans enjoy, too. It's within our power to keep it that way. An average family of four uses upwards of 90,000 gallons of water a year evidence of the reliability and ease with which clean, treated and trustworthy drinking water is received into a home or business. Not only that, the water is free. What you're paying for in water utility bills is processing the gathering, treating, testing, pumping, storing and replacing that water facilities do for us 24 hours a day. Our water supply is not endless, however. Much is displaced through evaporation, evapora-tion, and the number one consumer of water is irrigated irri-gated agriculture. According to the American Water Works Association, realistic pricing of water, and reason able conservation measures, can help keep our water supply plentiful. Appreciating how valu- lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll able our water supply 5 now may help us to iim 7 plenty of this vital resoum 's for years to come. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliinr. |