«It's in the suburban areas where you see
the most water savings,» Jones said.
Not exact matches
It measures how well a building or community performs across all the metrics that matter
most: energy
savings,
water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
Wind was by far the
most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the
savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no
water consumption.
When asked what are the
most important factors when choosing green buildings to buy or lease, corporate users
most frequently cite energy efficiency (81 %) followed by
water savings (53 %) and indoor environmental quality (50 %)[Fig. 5].
If I am on a shared meter with other tenants, it means my huge
water savings actually helps everyone but me, because the
savings I generate will be prorated to all the tenants, or
most often nothing happens.