10 percent water cutbacks met, reduction still encouraged

Published 11:59 am Thursday, August 27, 2015

Regionally, cities from Tacoma to Everett met the collective goal of reducing water use by 10 percent, according to a Cascade Water Alliance press release Wednesday.

The organization asks residents to continue the practice until the fall rains return.

The Alliance and its members joined the cities of Everett, Seattle and Tacoma in asking residents Aug. 12 to slow their water use.

The Alliance includes Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah, Redmond, Tukwila and the Sammamish Plateau and Skyway Water and Sewer Districts.

This was the second of a four-stage water shortage plan, designed to conserve the resource regionally as the area relied on low snowpack to provide water at a higher-than-normal consumption rate during a record-breaking summer.

Only a small portion of the water supplied to Issaquah and Sammamish comes from the Alliance, which gets its water from Seattle Public Utilities.

For more on ways to conserve, like letting the lawn go dormant, visit www.savingwater.org.