Pueblo West annual “wet parade” would have wasted the equivalent of 56,252 toilet flushes.
A huge and beloved Colorado water fight has been canceled after local leaders of unincorporated Pueblo West calculated the event would have wasted the equivalent of an estimated 56,252 toilet flushes.— which in the past has drawn up to 18,000 participants and given local businesses a boost — clashes with growing needs to conserve water, town officials decided at a meeting Monday night.
Less water than needed from the Twin Lakes mountain reservoir and other sources, combined with “explosive growth,” has led to Pueblo West running at a water deficit of about 1,100 acre feet each year over the past two years, utilities deputy director Jeffrey DeHerrera told board members. “That means we use more than we bring in,” DeHerrera said in the meeting. “And our deficit is likely to be higher than 1,100 acre-feet this year.
But utility staffers calculated each participant likely would spray 5 gallons of water, about 90,000 gallons overall — roughly the equivalent of flushing 56,252 toilets.
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