Sustainability summit celebrates achievements, sets new water-use target
Saying there is “always more to do” toward going green, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, speaking Tuesday at the 8th Annual Sustainability Summit, not only lauded the campus’s achievements to-date but announced an ambitious new conservation goal: reducing the campus’s use of potable water to 10 percent below 2008 levels by 2020. “This will require an investment of $1.6 million over five years,” he said, but “we’ll save $250,000 a year indefinitely.”
UC Berkeley uses more than 600 million gallons of potable water annually — mostly for water faucets, toilets, showers and other domestic purposes on the main campus and in the student-residence halls. According to a study by the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS), the campus can meet the new water-use goals by upgrading to lower-flow fixtures, repairing leaks, replacing heating equipment and encouraging water conservation. Negotiations are in progress for a source of non-potable water, suitable for irrigation. If those are successful, Birgeneau said, the campus would be able to double its water-reduction goal.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/19/sustainability-summit/
NSA Water Filters