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Sante Fe Competing in National Water Conservation Competition

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014   

SANTA FE, N.M. - Santa Fe is participating in a nationwide contest to conserve water during "Earth Month." From April 1-30, said Laurie Trevizo, city water conservation manager, Santa Fe is taking part in the National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation. The friendly competition, sponsored by the nonprofit Wyland Foundation, requires city residents to sign up for the contest online at mywaterpledge.com.

"When you take the pledge, you go online and you take a simple quiz," Trevizo said. "For example, it asks, 'What are your practices at home?' 'How are you saving water?' 'Do you have a low-flow toilet?'"

The contest involves cities competing against each other in categories based on population. Santa Fe is in the 30,000-99,000 population category, going up against places such as Greeley, Colo., and Roswell, Ga. Cities with the highest percentage of residents participating will win the competition and be eligible to win cash prizes, starting at $25, and the grand prize, a 2014 Toyota Prius.

Trevizo said Santa Fe's long-standing water-conservation and drought-management programs are among the best in the Southwest, pointing out that city water customers reduced their water use by 38 percent from 1995 to 2013, which ranked Santa Fe among the nation's most frugal cities on water use.

Water conservation is especially important now, because New Mexico is suffering one of the worst droughts on record, Trevizo said.

"This is a really good way to remind people that the whole entire state, not just Santa Fe, is still in a drought," she said, "and to encourage them to practice some of those things that are in the pledge."

The Wyland Foundation would like the contestant cities to collectively save more than 350 million gallons of water during the month of April.




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