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Overhauling of existing supply systems Ia raquirod to quarantao water quality and dallvory.

Residents cl
not pay ‘real’
cost of water

Stoclos by Teny Wanless
Juelness Reporter

aden hihink aweh
about water here in
the Lower Mainiead,
But we're nboutla,
hecausa tha reallly le (hate
starting soon, we're folng (G have
Lo start paying more for our water

Moat Lower Malntarel
Sousaholds pay an average ol
out $1390 4 wert:
rot ler
water which
vias always
yeeon plentiful
And ratatively
pire.

On the ph
scale al water yar
fates ArQUIK Hee,

North atte
Ameariea, that's QO
absurdly cheap.

And, what's werde, most of us
have no idea that wa're ever
paying that much, because we're
not Lillad fas water

Tos most homeowners, woler
costa determined hy a flit rate
hat disregards usage = are
included in thelt yearly tax Oil
Apartment dwellers pay for thelr
water in thelr rent.

APTTTT ie te Pr Ee

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avemerm rman © 0

Hut tha day in coning wher
water wan't ha as ddlculously
cheap ag it has bean.
Municipalitias araund the Lower
Matotand have to make some
major capital oxpenditures ta
quaranten water qualily ansl
uallvery, and somgons lad to pay
ord

"We're Junt not paying (he rend
cost of water right now,” says
Jerry Dobrovoluy, Vancouver's
assistant waterworks enginear

While the elly's benelited fromm
“avery good Infrastructure’ ull
many years ago, “we're Not
replacing that infrastructure na
{ast ag wa should be," he says,

“Water Is cheap right sow, Out
the pris is rishi,” says Tom
Heath, administrator of plant
operations with (ha water arm ol
the Greater Vancouver Raglonal
Nisteict, “We have plenty, enough
to supply three million people,
but wa have to spend a tat of
dollars to Insprove ald aiructures
such us dams and to guarantes
water standards meet higher
expectations,”

Tha GYRD, which gets (he water
froin three sources around the
Lower Mainiand, treats Cand then
sulls It wholesale to partlelpating
nywnilelpalities.

And an tinprovenent prograint
that is likely to cost aiminiinin of
$100 iniiilon means that wholesale
rice will fikely at least double by
the end af ils decade,
Municipalities will then pass the
axtra cost onto taxpayers, while
ul the sane time pigybacking
costs of (heir own Improvement

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progeny.

Next niontl Vancouver elly
counell will study a proponil to
carry Oud a amhitious peageaay af
walerenyntedn apaenciigs Uae
could, when coupled with
lngraosed GVRD costs, mean
signifleant Inereases in rentdentlal
WALCE FACN,

The city wants to mave how to
Increase replacement of much of
ita aging 1,000 kilometres of waler
piping, also wants to build a
reservoir to Increase capacily and
provide better {Ire protection.

IL council approves tha entire
uparading regime, residential
walter rates are projected lo
Increase from (he current $135.4
year to $362 a year by the year
2000,

A step (0 cul ing soi of these
costs is conservation, This
sunumer’s hiwisprinkiing ban
proved that conservation can ba
undertiken relatively easily,

The most vavera muthad of
enlorelng conservation [sy to
meter all water users Individually,

Bucin Vancouver, as in most
other munielpalities in tha Lower
Malnland, (ha high coat ol
instatling Individual inetors inated
the move uneconanieal,

instead, Vancouver Is planing
to launch a pubic education
program to encourage water
canservatlan, targeting schools
and other publi¢e areas to dellvar
the savewaler mossate.

it's also looking at etartlog a
retrofitting prograny, (6 help
homeowners Install waterasaviny
devices,

ITEM

Hotel stops
cash going
up in steam

ha Hotel Vancouver raver

net oud fo slop waslling

Wailer,

Ie wag mulivatedd more by
an environmental apirit. a couple of
yuirs age tat overtouk lis parent
elsain, Canadian Pacile Hotels,
whlet embarked ona pervaxive
revegectinngg uid WalR CTAB
freee,

Hy swealiayg reer, However (he
venprdlo dawntown Vancouver
hotel alvo stopped balng a water
pig and dideavared Lily sawing” at
tha sane ie,

Yat e's Gna of (ie fas lene
coummerehl enterprises lithe elty
That han bothered controlling tts
water use, Most lnduntries hive
been lulled (ita diuetion Uy
Abaurdly cheap water rae’ a=
rates (hit aleaaely are starting (0
lnergaie as (he ally moves from a
desiIning blockerals struckure (tha
more you wie, the legs you pay) (6
ay ene atlayt Onis (Hae OLE, Pay
more),

Tha Hotel Vancouver dalvally
attncked! [ts water tsa Vhrough he
usual mathosta Ht installed flow
restrletars in shaswers and water
hap (avenged Ee dostlellingg, Ht
also ty progresuively rephichig
Iighevolnite taiets with lowqie
appliances,

Hut the bly savings for the hotel
came In its faundry facility, which
yrocesses the thousands of
{ilograms ol laundry generated
dally hy Itself and Rs slater hotel,
the iiterfront Contre,

fly Inetalling 82 steam guards, o¢
traps, In dhe (acilily and reuding
the steam (or oller purposes, ie
hotel aaved not anty on stcay (or
water) cogta, but alse showed
signifleant energy wavligs, All tha
hotas's gnergyacondervation
methods carned Ita hefiy rebate
fram UC Hydea's PowerSinart
CONGAPVATON PraBeany,

“Wa weit toa few (ype af staan
trap iv whe laundry,” says ‘Tony
Oowald, the hotel's agmiatant
Hulldingenaiilananee supervisor,
"Wo recover the candensite, oF
Hot water fram de traps and ase
aga preheat (or cur damentic
Y ker,”

TI vba On tenn onl aie
Faeyn aidgrsldfcaad, Deswarlel says, ‘The
Heted buiya ie atau fran a private
suppller, which Ie turn pave far Uy
walar used to make It, Roudnely,
ihe hetel has been eutday &5,000
iron ite $36, 000th s(eain
ein

Thea naw syste alga las helped
the hotel cue itn lacey costs,
fronvalne conts a kllogran(d, |
cents a pound) to leas (han hall

nat

Tho hotel's prayeain lo gelsyy to
be adopted san ly other
companies, procicts
envlronmeniad constant David
Vian Satara, hia bi wleaeptenialeat
nl KPMG Enviranmendal Services

iG.

“There's no incentive lor
Inusiry bo atop swan tling writ ar int
tonlay's low water prigen,” lia ainys
“ut (hose priest ira going (oy
Up, (reinendously, Hove follow
olher jurisdictions,

"The tinie to deal with it (a nuw,
especially if you're building
something nav, (t doesn’t havo to
Invelve diy things, You can achigy
sigaifleant watar savings by alot.
Hite, Incremental sley9.”

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Tany Oowald amid the Hotel Vancouver's piles of laundry,

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