The One Water approach offers tremendous opportunities for improving how water is managed within communities.
Using water efciently and taking advantage of diverse, locally available water supplies are important goals. It is also
important that the approach support communities in assessing how their water use affects the health of waterways, both upstream, where water is sourced, and downstream, where other communities and aquatic resources may be impacted.
The Texas case study considers the statewide economic impacts of $2 billion of investment in a broad range of
urban water conservation programs addressing indoor and outdoor water uses in the residential, commercial,
and industrial sectors, including programs to replace old, water-wasting toilets, programs to upgrade
inefficient landscape irrigation systems, programs to improve commercial kitchen water use efficiency,
programs to increase industrial process water use efficiency, and programs to reduce water losses within
water distribution networks.
