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United Water New Jersey Asks Customers To Conserve
Utility wants residents to refrain from watering their lawns for the next few days. Reservoirs are at 50 percent capacity.
United Water New Jersey is asking customers to conserve water and refrain from watering their lawns during the current heat wave.
New Jersey reservoirs that serve Bergen county residents are at half their capacity; 400 million more gallons of water were distributed in August compared with last August.
“This extended dry weather is testing the limits of our supply,” said Tom Nolan, United Water’s senior operations director. “With barely over one and a quarter inches of rain in August, this is one of the driest summer months in northern New Jersey in over 90 years.”
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Just one lawn irrigation system uses about the same amount of water as five households, United Water said in a press release. Outdoor water demands can result in up to 50 percent more water use throughout the United Water system.
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