Tracking where all of Cheney's water goes

“Water is life” — at least according to text on the city of Cheney’s Consumer Confidence Report for 2015 regarding water quality in the city.

Part of that life these days is not only conserving the precious resource underneath residents’ feet, but also accounting for all of the water in the city’s system. As such, the report stated Cheney has accounted for 88.2 percent of the water it pumps from the ground, something Public Works Director Todd Ableman hopes increases from efforts to locate and repair situations that create those losses.

The city’s goal is water losses of 10 percent or under, A...