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Basic Water Facts For Huntington Beach, provided courtesy of sfaff researchers at Huntington Beach Water Department.

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Water Usage
  • Approximately 50 percent of the average daily water demand in Huntington Beach is for yard use (based on 2.63 people per dwelling unit.
  • Each Huntington Beach resident uses an average of 106 gallons of water each day.
  • Each home uses about 280 gallons of water each day, 140 of which is for the yard or other outside use.
  • Less than 1 percent of our daily water use goes for drinking
  • For indoor use, 28 percent of our water is flushed down the toilet, 19 percent goes down the bath or shower drain, 15 percent comes out of faucets (including drinking), 12 percent goes to leaks and 3 percent to dishwashing.

Huntington Beach Water Costs
  • The city of Huntington Beach gets 66 percent of its water from local city-owned ground wells and 34 percent from outside of the city through the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
  • The average weighted cost per acre foot of water (325,851 gallons per acre foot) is (source: Orange County Water District 2010 Water Plan):
    • $297.00 per acre foot for groundwater
    • $495.00 per acre foot for outside water through the MWDSC

Huntington Beach Water Conservation and Future Water Needs

The city of Huntington Beach became a Signatory to the Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Best Management Practices for Urban Water Conservation in September, 2000. The California Urban Water Conservation Council (CUWCC) has responsibility for monitoring implementation of the Urban MOU. The Metropolitan Water District of Orange County, as a regional wholesaler of imported water, implements many of the Best Management Practices (BMP) on behalf of the city. The city is committed to using good faith efforts to implement 14 current BMPs. MWDOC sercures funding from MWD’s Conservation Credits Program, the US Bureau of Reclamation, the State Water Resources Control Board and other sources to help implement the BMPs.

The city of Huntington Beach reports that our residential per-capita water use dropped about 5 percent in the past 5 years. This drop is significant considering that it occurred during a drought period.

Commercial and industrial water demands dropped 17 percent during the same period. The city attributes this to its aggressive use of low flow toilets and reduced water use fixtures, as well as to its participation in commercial and industrial BMPs. Huntington Beach currently produces 10 percent less water than it did in 1990. The city’s current and future water needs have been addressed in the its Water Master Plan. Once all projects are completed, the city will have enough water capacity to meet its projected water needs through 2025.

Understanding Water Districts

The Orange County Water District is the manager of the groundwater base. The Metropolitan Water District is the supplier of our imported water. The Municipal Water District of Orange County is our representative on the MWD board of directors. MWDOC represents 30 Orange County water agencies. Both agencies can be researched on the Web at www.ocwd.com and www.mwdoc.com

 

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