While Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa thinks it was water & power consumption restrictions that has caused record savings in Los Angeles, me-thinks that empty houses and the Great Recesion did the deed. Either way, the effects are impressive:
First, the Mayor announced that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has achieved a new energy savings record of 318 gigawatt-hours (GWh) for fiscal year 2008-09. That amount of energy savings equates to removing 53,000 households from the grid and avoiding 178,700 metric tons of greenhouses gases (GHG) each year.
The Mayor also announced that, thanks to Phase III water restrictions, Angelenos reduced their water use in July 2009 by more than 17% overall from the previous year. Single-Family Residential properties decreased usage by 20.1%; Multi-Family Residential properties decreased usage by 8.3%; Commercial properties decreased water usage by 17.1%; Industrial properties decreased usage by 21.8%; and Government properties decreased usage by 34.4%.
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