{"id":22518,"date":"2017-06-21T20:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22518"},"modified":"2017-06-21T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:14:50","slug":"lets-not-set-a-new-water-use-record-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22518","title":{"rendered":"Let’s not set a new water-use record, OK?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amarillo residents think they need to be No. 1 … apparently.<\/p>\n

City Hall staff reports that water usage Tuesday tied an all-time daily record, set in August 2002. Residents and businesses pumped 92 million gallons of water in a single day.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of, um, lawn irrigation, car washes and pool fillups.<\/p>\n

The city’s Every Drop Counts water conservation mantra needs to be placed on the top of residents’ minds.<\/p>\n

Yes, the city took a lot of rain early this month. My wife and I were on the road, but we heard about it.\u00a0Our favorite playa, Lake McDonald, has been revived thanks to the abundant moisture.<\/p>\n

News about heavy water use does concern me. I’m sure it concerns you, too.<\/p>\n

I want to harken back about two years ago when the city’s administrative staff was run by a certified water expert. City Manager Jarrett Atkinson could talk water policy, conservation and management with the best of ’em. Then he quit as city manager because — as I understand it — he had difficulty working with the then-new City Council majority. He landed in Lubbock, where as city manager he is now lending his water-conservation expertise to that city’s governing council.<\/p>\n

The message ought to remain the same in the city Atkinson left behind. Our water is not infinite.<\/p>\n

I get that it’s hot! Summer has arrived. However, every drop of water does count. Really. It does!<\/p>\n\n

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Amarillo residents think they need to be No. 1 … apparently. City Hall staff reports that water usage Tuesday tied an all-time daily record, set in August 2002. Residents and businesses pumped 92 million gallons of water in a single day. That’s a lot of, um, lawn irrigation, car washes and pool fillups. The city’s … Continue reading Let’s not set a new water-use record, OK?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[290,1656,5197],"class_list":["post-22518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-every-drop-counts","tag-water-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22520,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22518\/revisions\/22520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}