Downtown Tucson Partnership starts using reclaimed water in planters downtown [Video]

TUCSON, Ariz. — The city of Tucson and Downtown Tucson Partnership are doing their part to conserve water, and making a significant change that you’ll most likely never notice.

Walking through downtown Tucson, there are planters just about everywhere you look. Rather than using our limited supply of drinking water to water all 225 of them, maintenance workers with the Downtown Tucson Partnership are now using reclaimed water instead.

“We see that as a real win for the City and for the community,” said Office of Economic Initiatives Deputy Director Kevin Burke. He says the change puts the city more in line with their climate action goals.

“We’re talking about several thousand gallons a week that we’re using reclaimed water, instead of potable water downtown.

The question of why the city didn’t make this switch sooner, comes down to the fact that you can’t access reclaimed water everywhere in Tucson. …