Water Facts
Water Facts
Every day, 24 hours a day, we deliver water to more than 90,000 people. In an average day we supply 17,416,630 gallons of water. This water is brought to your homes and businesses through a network of pumping stations and more than 269 miles of water main.
We have about 24,000 service connections to the water mains, and 2,250 fire hydrants.
Ogden City's water supply meets or exceeds all water quality requirements set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Utah State Department of Health and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
What is Water and Where does it come from?
Water is a molecule that consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. When these atoms are heated to a high temperature, they join to form water. The scientific way to write this molecule is "H2O". Since most of the water on earth was created when the earth was forming, that water you are drinking today may have been a drink for a dinosaur or maybe a part of Cleopatra's bath water!
Water occurs naturally in three forms that people see every day.
- It can be vapor as the steam from your breath or cooking.
- It can be liquid as a beverage or a lake, stream, river or ocean.
- It can be solid as ice.
Water Sources
| 6 Wells (upper valley) |
providing 60% |
| Treatment Plant (Pine View and Wheeler Creek) |
providing 12% |
| Weber Basin Water Conservancy District |
providing 28% |
Conservation Tips about those Drips 
We live in a desert where there isn't much rain. We need to preserve the water we have by using it wisely. Here are a few ways that you can help.
- Inspect all pipes and faucets for leaks. Hundreds of gallons of water are dripped away.
- Keep a bottle of water in the refrigerator for drinking.
- An average tub holds more than 50 gallons of water. Conserve by filling the tub half way.
- Use a broom instead of a water hose to clear debris from patios, driveways, and sidewalk.
- Adjust sprinklers so only the lawn is watered and not the house, sidewalk or street.
- Cover pools and spas to cut down on evaporation.
- Check toilets for hidden leaks. Add food coloring to the water in the tank. If color appears in the bowl without flushing, you have a leak.
- Install water-saving shower heads; turn off water while soaping up or shampooing; take shorter showers.
- Match the load setting on your washing machine to the load size.
- Load your dishwasher to capacity before running it.
- Water your lawn in the early morning or evening and never on a windy day.
- Mulch around trees and plants to retain water.
- Let grass grow taller in hot dry weather. Longer grass means less evaporation.
Conservation is everyone's responsibility and every little bit helps!
FUN WATER FACTS
- Water acts as a natural insulator to regulate the earth's temperature
- Only 1% of the earth's water is available for drinking: 2% is currently frozen.
- Water is the only substance on earth found naturally in three forms... solid, liquid, and gas
- One gallon of water weighs approximately 8 pounds
- You can survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water
- 70% of your skin is water
- A dairy cow must drink 4 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of milk
- On average, a person uses about 100 gallons of water a day
- A five-minute shower takes 10 to 25 gallons of water
- An automatic dishwasher uses 9 to 123 gallons of water to wash one load
- 300 million gallons of water are needed to produce a single day's supply of the world's newsprint
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