Clean, treated, ready-to-drink tap water is sold at the wholesale rate of $1.67/1000 gallons of water to four customer cities – Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville. Each city supplies this water to more than 375,000 customers.
Working closely with our customer cities to highlight the Urban Water Cycle, this video shows the movement of water via human use in Northwest Arkansas from Beaver Lake, through the treatment process, distribution to homes, and back into a local waterway. By highlighting different careers involved in the water industry, each customer city’s segment shows the interconnections of the watersheds in NWA, from drinking water to wastewater.
There is a total of four water districts/suppliers on Beaver Lake and each has an allocation of space within the lake’s conservation pool for their water supply. Each district makes an annual payment to the United States government for their pro-rata share of the costs of operating and maintaining the reservoir and repayment of the capital investment in the dam and reservoir. Beaver Lake is the drinking water source for more than half a million people.