Austin City Council is scheduled to vote on proposals to overhaul Austin drought rules and long-term conservation rules on Thursday. The plans failed to gain the support of a city advisory panel charged with vetting water policy.
Proposals to overhaul Austin’s drought response rules and update long-term conservation goals will go to the Austin City Council for a vote this week without the support of a city advisory panel charged with vetting water policy.for many on the city advisory panel. Task force members also complained at a mid-April meeting that they were only given hours to read the proposals before being asked to support them.
While the plans failed to gain support, Austin Water staff did offer further rationale for their new conservation goals.plans set rules for how the city manages its limited water supply that is stored in Highland Lakes reservoirs. Under state law, the plans need to be updated every five years. Factoring in industrial and business uses, Austinites average 127 gallons of water use per capita daily. Under the new conservation proposal, Austin Water aims to reduce that by 4 gallons to 123 gallons per day by 2029.
Austin Water Director Shay Ralls Roalson said putting unrealistic conversation goals into city water planning could threaten Austin’s long-term water security. Austin Water officials suggested that previous conservation goals were harder to attain given the recent hot dry summers.“We can't keep on this trajectory,” said task force chair Jennifer Walker. “We’ve got a lot of hot dry summers ahead of us.”
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