Illinois American Water Encourages Customers to Fix Leaks and Prevent Water Waste During Fix a Leak Week
March 18 2019 - 3:01PM
Business Wire
Illinois American Water is leveraging U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) Fix a Leak Week to help decrease water
waste. The annual Fix a Leak Week campaign, organized by the EPA’s
WaterSense program, will be observed this week, March 18-24. The
national campaign helps to raise awareness about small leaks and
other water issues that may waste water within homes and
businesses.
“For Illinois American Water, this week is about empowering our
customers to use water wisely,” said Mike Smyth, vice president of
operations. “That drip in the downstairs utility sink can mean
thousands of gallons of water lost in a year. If each customer does
their part, a huge impact can be made to prevent water waste.”
According to the EPA, the average residence in the U.S. loses
10,000 gallons of water per year thanks to seemingly minor leaks.
With more than 110 million households in the U.S., this equates to
more than one trillion gallons of water lost every year due to
leaks in the home.
“Most people may not realize that even the smallest leaks can
waste thousands of gallons per year,” said Smyth. “A shower head
losing 10 drips per minute wastes 500 gallons of water in a
year—you could run 60 loads of dishes through the dishwasher with
that amount of water. If every one of our Illinois customers fixed
a household leak, they could contribute to millions, or even
billions, of gallons of water saved in a year.”
Illinois American Water offers these tips for detecting
leaks:
- Check your water meter at the start and
end of a two-hour period during which no water is being used (i.e.
when no one is home). If the meter changes, there most likely is a
leak.
- Place a drop of food coloring in your
toilet tank and see if the water in the bowl changes colors within
10 minutes. If so, you have a leak.
- At least once a season—and especially
after extreme temperature changes—check faucet gaskets and pipe
fittings for surface leaks, indicated by water on the exterior of
the pipes.
Download a leak detection kit at
www.amwater.com/ilaw/water-information/detecting-leak. Include
children in learning with interactive games and more at
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/watersense-kids#tab-4.
About Illinois American Water – Illinois American Water,
a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE: AWK), is the largest
investor-owned water utility in the state, providing high-quality
and reliable water and/or wastewater services to approximately 1.3
million people. American Water also operates a customer service
center in Alton and a quality control and research laboratory in
Belleville. With a history dating back to 1886, American Water is
the largest and most geographically diverse U.S. publicly-traded
water and wastewater utility company. The company employs more than
7,100 dedicated professionals who provide regulated and
market-based drinking water, wastewater and other related services
to over 14 million people in 45 states and Ontario, Canada.
American Water provides safe, clean, affordable and reliable water
services to our customers to make sure we keep their lives flowing.
For more information, visit amwater.com and follow American Water
on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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