NYC: Water Conservation, Cooling Inequity and an Argument for Heat Pumps

NYC: Water Conservation, Cooling Inequity and an Argument for Heat Pumps

If you talk about tap water with any New Yorker, they will likely boast about how New York City’s tap water is some of the best in the world. And it’s true; NYC gets more than 1 billion gallons of water delivered from pristine reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains every single day (1). With such an abundance of clean drinking water, it is not surprising that water conservation is not a priority for many New Yorkers.

Water consumption rates in the U.S. are some of the highest in the world; the average American family consumes more than 300 gallons of water per day at home (2). In NYC, the average person consumes 118 gallons of water per day (as of 2020) — that's almost 447 one-liter bottles of potable water (3)

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