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St. Anthony 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 8: Water Supply 165 Table 5 lists the top ten water users by volume, from largest to smallest, for the City of St. Anthony. TABLE 5: LARGE VOLUME USERS Customer Category Use (gallons/year) Percent of Total Use Happy’s Potato Chip Industrial 20,608,427 7.95% Emerald Park Institutional 9,312,083 3.59% Central Park Irrigation Institutional 6,921,370 2.67% Landings East Residential 5,219,000 2.01% Sentinel Management Residential 4,970,230 1.92% St. Anthony Nursing Home Residential 4,838,843 1.87% School District Institutional 4,439,190 1.71% Sentinel Management Residential 4,435,750 1.71% Chandler Place Residential 3,304,360 1.27% Landings West Residential 3,264,180 1.26% Existing Water Conservation Policies Although Minnesotans benefit from the state’s abundant water supplies, those supplies are finite and potential threats exist that could impact the quality of our drinking water. Factors that can potentially limit water supply include: population increases, economic trends, uneven statewide availability of groundwater, climate change, and degraded water quality. There are many benefits to enacting the types of water conservation policies that the City has already implemented and will continue to pursue. The average total water used per year in the City of St. Anthony from 2010 to 2015 was 274.6 million gallons, with an average of 7.23% of that usage being unmetered or unaccounted. The average residential per capita demand has been decreasing steadily since 2012. From 2010 to 2015 it averaged 68 gallons per capita per day, which is less than the DNR’s recommended residential demand of 75 gallons per capita per day. The decrease in residential per capita demand may be attributed to high efficiency appliances, reduced irrigation, general attitudes toward conservation, rainfall, and climate.