Water: Goals

Goals

• Maintain campus water indicators.


• Research and employ new water efficiency technologies.


• Provide information about campus water use and its environmental impact to campus constituents – include ways to reduce water use.


• Revisit water contracts to see where we can make improvements in the short and long-term.


• Assist with water-related policy creation and implementation.


• Update campus building standards to acheive all LEED points under the Water Efficiency category.


• Measure existing water use and install additional meters.


• Create a water managment plan, including landscaping, builiding use, and water reuse.


• Reduce potable water use and increase reclaimed water use by 15% by 2012.


• Reduce potable water use and increase reclaimed water use by 25% by 2014.


• Work with key campus groups to develop a campus-wide water management strategy.


• Increase reclaimed water use in toilets.


• Capture rainwater for resuse on campus.