Officials in the fast-growing Phoenix suburb of Peoria have a water conservation philosophy they care enough about to have trademarked: Peoria has enough water to use, but we never have enough to waste.
That philosophy drives the water conservation education program, recently expanded to become the cornerstone of the city’s Sustainable University. Water conservation classes have attracted 300 to 400 students per session and are the core curriculum in a program that now addresses a variety of environmental concerns.
Peoria, in Arizona’s Sonoran desert, has grown from 15,000 residents in the 1980s to more than 160,000. The city receives an average of
