Water Utilities

The Department of Water Utilities is a not-for-profit department of the City of Ruston providing water, wastewater and mosquito control services to in the citizens of Ruston and nearby communities. Department operations are funded solely by the water and wastewater user fees paid by customers. Customer water use is metered to insure accurate billing for the amount of water used, and to provide a means to prorate sewer use fees.

DID YOU KNOW?

Only three percent of the water on Earth is freshwater, and only 1 percent is available for human consumption.

There are over 1 million miles of water pipelines and aqua ducts in the U.S. and Canada – enough to circle the globe 40 times.

There are over 59,000 community public water systems in the U.S.

Community water systems process over 35 billion gallons of water daily.

Americans drink more than 1 billion gallons of water per year.

Groundwater makes up 95% of the fresh water resources in the U.S.

52% of the people in the U.S. use ground water for drinking water.

Once ground water is polluted it may remain that way for several thousands of years.

Each day the sun evaporates 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) tons of water.

Water is the only substance on earth naturally found in the three true element forms: solids, liquid, and gas.

Running the tap waiting for water to get hot or cold can waste 5 gallons of water every minute.

You could survive about a month without food, but only 5 to 7 days without water.

Two-thirds of the water used in an average home is used in the bathroom.

On average, each person uses 2 gallons of water to brush his or her teeth each day.

A leaking faucet can waste up to 100 gallons of water a day.

One gallon of gasoline can contaminate approximately 750,000 gallons of water.

You can help prevent pollution of drinking water sources by correctly disposing of the chemical products you use in your home. Call the Public Works office at 318-242-7703 to find out more about Household Hazardous Waste Collection day.