Long Beach Water Commission President William Townsend has announced, “the people and business community of Long Beach have risen to the need to preserve our region’s strategic water storage supplies more positively than perhaps any other community in the region.”
Water use in Long Beach this past September was lower than any other September in the last decade: 6% below the previous low and 12% lower than average.
In addition, the Hilton Long Beach & Executive Meeting Center will save 111 million gallons of water over the next 20 year after installing 400 high efficiency toilets throughout its facilities.
Mayor Bob Foster, Vice Mayor Bonnie Lowenthal and Councilmember Suja Lowenthal, joined officials from the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners, the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, the Water Replenishment District (WRD) of Southern California and the Long Beach Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to acknowledge the water conservation efforts. Townsend commended the extra conservation efforts.
“To the people of Long Beach I would like to say, thank you; and thank you to the Hilton Long Beach for raising the bar on water conservation for other businesses in our city and, indeed, all of southern California.”