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Media Highlight: Water prices rising despite dip in home consumption

Posted by Communications and Marketing on April 5, 2013 in Media Highlights

From CBC.ca:

Graham Gagnon of the Centre for Water Resource Studies at Dalhousie University said a good place for people to save money at home is to start is with leaky taps and running toilets.

"That can add up very quickly to hundreds of dollars a year if you just let that flush repeatedly because you're losing water repeatedly,” he said. “It's a pretty common occurrence in the household - a chain gets stuck at the back and you just continuously lose water."

Watch the full interview clip.