Environmental Report Reveals Cedar Park Loses About 18 Percent Of Its Water

CEDAR PARK, ,TX -- A newly released join report by environmental groups has a main focus of assessing conservation efforts in Austin, but also has drawn attention to water losses in surrounding central Texas cities.

In its examination of the report, KXAN-TV focused on Cedar Park. Data show the city lost about 18.1 percent of its water, based on the most recent state-verified data from 2014.

Texas Living Waters Project report is a partnership among the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation and the Galveston Bay Foundation. In addition to devising conservation scorecards, the report also tracked water loss.

The more points, the better the score was the net effect of the process. But no points were awarded in the water loss category for water systems losing more than 15.4 percent of their water.

In total points, Cedar Park scored 60 of a potential 100, according to the report.

“We’re still having to pay to get that water to transport, to treat it, to send it out toward people’s homes,” Jennifer Walker, Water Resources Program Manager for the Sierra Club, told KXAN. “That’s not something that we want to pay for as consumers."

Cedar Park spokeswoman Jennie Huerta pointed out the water loss data outlined in the report includes loss of the liquid resource by municipal utility districts buying water from the city. What's more, Cedar Park doesn't control the infrastructure for those districts.

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