Thursday, April 30, 2009

Manitou and Co. Springs water

Manitou drinking water is different from Colorado Springs water. Manitou gets some of its drinking water from the Rocky Mountains. The water comes from snow melt and natural springs. They also get there water from Manitou reservoir. The Rocky Mountains offer Manitou some of the freshest water. Manitou also gets it's water from the ground. All this water isn't very clean so Manitou send it back. It then enters the Mesa and Crystal Hill water storage tanks ready to be used.
While for Colorado they get over 75% of there water from the continental divide. Meaning that we get some of the cleanest and most purest water like Manitou. Colorado Springs also gets there other 25% of there water from other reservoirs and damns. Colorado has over 200 miles of pipes and four major pump stations which pump water to a water cleaning facility and pumps the water throughout all of Colorado Springs.
Although Manitou and Colorado Springs get there water in diffrent ways, they both get some of there water from snow. Also there water is some of the cleanest, purest, and less used water throughout the world.

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