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51 Wasatch Front Businesses, Including Mark Miller Subaru, Call for More Water Conservation

Subaru Loves the Earth display and water conservation message at Mark Miller Subaru

SALT LAKE CITY, June 14, 2021. More than 50 Wasatch Front businesses, along with the Utah Rivers Council, asked Utah governor and legislature to do more to conserve water.

Subaru Loves the Earth display and water conservation message at Mark Miller Subaru

What the Letter Asks For

In a letter to the governor, the 51 businesses asked for a 2 percent reduction in water usage per year.

"They need to do far more from a conservation standpoint. We need to do something and we hope the governor is more aggressive, and the state overall has done very little from a conservation standpoint." Steve Schmit, owner of Western Rivers Flyfisher

"We need water. Not just the trout that we fish for in our streams but also for water quality, I mean it all trickles down to us eventually." Steve Schmit

Outdoor Businesses Speaking Up

Wasatch Touring also signed the letter.

"The levels of the rivers and the reservoirs that we love to play and explore and recreate in have been going down. It is definitely coming to a point where it is going to take kind of a rallying cry for this." Dylan Timmer, co-owner of Wasatch Touring

Why Mark Miller Subaru Signed

"We have a lot of outdoorsy customers and they are out there. And they are on the lakes and up in these mountains and they are seeing these rivers." Jeff Miller, owner of Mark Miller Subaru

What We Already Do

The retailer is already doing a lot to conserve water and energy, from solar panels and xeriscaping to a recycled water car wash.

"It is heartening to see that others feel the same way that we do." Jeff Miller

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Mark Miller Subaru serves Salt Lake City from our Midtown retailer at 3535 S. State St. and Sandy from our South Towne retailer at 10920 S. State St. Built For Wherever You're Headed.

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