Case Study
Laughlin Air Force Base
Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas is the largest pilot training base in the USAF. The base covers 5.9 square miles and has 664 housing units. Laughlin also had the dubious honor of being the highest water consuming base, using an average of 216 million gallons of potable water each year. More than half of this potable water was used to irrigate the 220 acres of base landscaping. In early 2015, the base completed the first phas