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■ <br />Recommendation : Continue to assess water supply limits and safety, <br />and ensure sufficient supply. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Continue current methods and develop new methods to ensure that planned communities have <br />sufficient water. <br />B. Protect groundwater and limit its use to its recharge rates /carrying capacity, as determined <br />through scientific studies (such as the current Water Resources/USGS effort). <br />Recommendation 2: Aggressively promote water conservation. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Establish a water conservation program for all water providers for UNC, all four towns and <br />the county that: <br />• provides strong incentives to reduce water consumption, including charging customers for the <br />true cost of water consumption (done in such a way as to not negatively impact persons with <br />low incomes); <br />• promotes landscaping that places minimum demands on water supply through citizen <br />education, incentives and ordinances to encourage and /or require water conservation <br />measures; <br />• develops a database on water use. <br />B. Develop a water reclamation program for all water providers, identifying possible users of <br />reclaimed water and providing incentives for use. <br />C. Permit use of gray -water for watering landscape, flushing toilet, etc. — as this can be done <br />safely. <br />D. Use cisterns to collect rainwater on public buildings to provide graywater and lessen impact on <br />stormwater runoff. <br />61 <br />