Did you know?

• The cost of one bottle of water from a vending machine is equivalent to the cost of drinking 8 glasses of tap water every day for a year.
• A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.
• The Water Authority maintains almost 1500 miles of drinking water pipes. If you put them end-to-end, they would stretch from Roanoke to Colorado Springs, CO.
• At one drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons of water per year.
• Water is the only substance naturally found on earth as a solid, liquid and gas.
• Over 713 gallons of water go into the production of one cotton T-shirt.
• The Authority’s Water Pollution Control Plant is regarded as one of the best bird-watching areas in the mid-Atlantic region.
• The Water Authority maintains over 6,000 fire hydrants in our service area. Fire hydrants are connected to the public drinking water distribution lines, so water from a fire hydrant is drinking water.
• There are over 30,000 manholes in our service area.
• Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is the second largest municipal park in the United States.
• The Authority’s Water Pollution Control Plant covers over 100 acres of land.
• More people in the world have a mobile phone than have a toilet.
• The Water Authority treats 19-million gallons of drinking water a day although we have the capacity to treat 56-million gallons per day.
• The Authority’s Water Pollution Control Plant treats almost 37-million gallons of wastewater a day from all across the Roanoke Valley.
• There are over 70 drinking water storage tanks in our service area. They each hold between 500,000 – 2-million gallons of water.
• Most of the treated drinking water used in a home is for toilet flushing.