Interesting Info:

The History of Salt Lake City's Water Usage

Salt Lake City established the Water Department in 1875 to manage the City Creek Canyon water supply, and provide water service to 20,000 residents. Today we deliver between 50 million and 210 million gallons of water daily to nearly 405,000 people in Salt Lake City and eastern Salt Lake County, including workers who commute into the city during the day.

To meet the demand for this service, the department treats and transports more than 100,000 acre feet of water annually through a system fed by Deer Creek Reservoir, City Creek, Parley's, Big and Little Cottonwood streams, and deep wells throughout the Salt Lake Valley. The Little Dell Project, completed during the fall of 1992 provides an additional 21,000 acre feet of storage. Salt Lake City's system is one of the world's most complex culinary water systems because of the number of water sources and differences in service elevations.

The City water supply meets or exceeds all water quality requirements set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Utah State Department of Health, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.