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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and its Water Efficient Technologies Program (W.E.T.). The W.E.T. Program is designed to encourage capital improvements that can result in saving at least 500,000 gallons per year, provides an incentive of up to $150,000 per property, and offers two Program Tracks that include: Menu Item - select from a list of pre-approved technologies with assigned incentive values; and, performance-based - for custom conservation solutions (rebate contingent on performance). The status of the Cooling Towers Program is presented, along with Conclusions: SNWA's efforts to facilitate improvements in the water efficiency of cooling towers appears to be successful; for those properties partnering with SNWA, CR has gone from 2.22 up to 3.45 (an improvement of 1.23); this represents an annual savings of approximately 673,760 gallons for each 100 tons of cooling capacity; for the average facility visited, this equates to an average savings of 17,718,414 gallons annually; and, this is a 45% savings in blow-down water. Includes tables, figures.