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The city of Tucson and Downtown Tucson Partnership are doing their part to conserve water, and making a significant change that you'll most likely never notice.Walking through downtown Tucson , there are planters just about everywhere you look. Rather than using our limited supply of drinking water to water all 225 of them, maintenance workers with the Downtown Tucson Partnership are now using reclaimed water instead.
He spends eight hours a day, five days a week, watering.As the downtown area goes through more improvements, the new landscaping requires more water.'We have to fill the tank like 7 to 8 times,' Sallu said. He says the change also saves time for him on a daily basis. Using regular water, it would take about 45 minutes for him to fill up the tank. Now, it takes about 10 minutes.The downtown partnership also used to get water from several different property owners.
Groundwater Maintenance Partnership Planters Reclaimed Tucson Water Watering
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