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Hundreds of Thousands of Gallons Clean Drinking Water Wasted on ….
Residents are outraged that during a time of drought valuable drinking water is used for making fake snow.
Second year that the dry Arizona city has used potable water to make snow for the Dew Downtown Flagstaff Urban Ski and Snowboard Festival
Flagstaff residents oppose city’s use of drinking water for snow making
FLAGSTAFF — It’s the second year that the city of Flagstaff is using potable water to create snow for the Dew Downtown Flagstaff Urban Ski and Snowboard Festival.
While the city argues potable water is cleaner and more comfortable for the snowboarders and skiers than reclaimed water, some Flagstaff residents are saying the practice is wasteful.
Although Flagstaff saw a few inches of snow during the latest storm, the city plans to use 440,000 gallons of potable water to create more.
“We had that very dry January with no snow, so we needed to put a little bit more out there to get the same base,” said city of Flagstaff spokeswoman Kimberly Ott.
Geoffery Bishop is one of many Flagstaff residents voicing concern about the use of drinking water for the festival while the resource is scarce.
”I think that’s terrible. I think that that is way too much water to use on an event like this,” he said.
Flagstaff resident Alexa Vagnozzi agreed, saying the city has other options.
”I would prefer the more contaminated relcaimed water rather than the drinking water because we don’t want to take away the drinking water from Flagstaff citizens or anything like that,” she said.
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