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Salt Lake City presents 2025 water conservation plan; public hearing set for Dec. 2
Summary
City utilities staff briefed the council on the city’s required five‑year water conservation plan, highlighting long‑term demand reductions (23% since 2000), a goal to secure an additional ~20,000 acre‑feet by midcentury, and a planned study on links to the Great Salt Lake; the council scheduled a public hearing Dec. 2 and adoption consideration Dec. 9.
Salt Lake City Public Utilities presented its 2025 Water Conservation Plan at the City Council work session on Nov. 25, describing the five‑year update required by state law and setting a timeline for local adoption. The department said the plan lays out supply and demand analyses, a historical baseline, conservation goals at 5‑, 10‑ and multi‑decadal horizons, program lists and a communications strategy.
“Since the year 2000, we’ve had a reduction in total demand of about 23%,” Stephanie Dewar, the city’s water conservation program manager, told the council as she reviewed historical trends and the…
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