The San Antonio Report reached out to the utility's top-10 industrial or commercial users over the summer to find out about their water use.
CarbonFree, which captures industrial carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases responsible for a warming planet, uses water in its capturing process and as an ingredient in the creation of some of its chemicals, said the company’s general counsel, J. Brent Hagy.
Neither TowerJazz Texas nor beverage bottler Refresco replied to multiple requests for comment on their water use.by Tower Semiconductor, TowerJazz Texas’ parent company, states that “the semiconductor production process … requires a significant quantity of ‘ultra-pure’ water when cleaning hardware of chemicals used in the production processes.”
That relief comes with a cost, however. Both parks are especially heavy fresh water users in the summer. Ranking as the summer’s top water user, Fiesta Texas used just over 67 million gallons between May and July this summer. Fiesta Texas has worked to conserve water by adding native plants to its landscaping, recycling park runoff water into an irrigation lake for its water landscape beds, installing water-saving plumbing fixtures and using closed-loop waterfalls and fountains, Filicko said, adding that the water used in Fiesta Texas’ water park is filtered, treated and re-circulated.
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