This report examines the potential electricity and
water efficiency savings that could be realized in South Carolina through the implementation of a suite of eleven electric and five water efficiency policies, and quantifies the growth in gross state product and employment that would result...
Today's committee report notes that tougher action must be taken to deal with the «unacceptably high» levels of water leakage, saying that in many cases, the waste is putting off consumers from making their own
water efficiency savings.
Not exact matches
But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste
water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing
efficiencies and potential cost
savings for your company to support your bottom line.
Efficiency savings gained with high - speed manufacturing and automation is another important factor that allows our customers to offer the best value bottled
water on their shelves.
The On - Farm Irrigation
Efficiency Program is aimed at assisting irrigators within the southern connected system of the Murray - Darling Basin to modernise their on - farm irrigation infrastructure while returning
water savings to the environment
Built by San Francisco - based DPR Construction and designed by ZGF Architects, based in Portland, Ore., Clif Bar's headquarters was completed in 2010 and has earned LEED Platinum by achieving high performance in energy
efficiency, materials selection, sustainable site development,
water savings and indoor environmental quality.
State Director of Operations Howard Glaser threw some cold
water on the prospect that the Spending and Government
Efficiency Commission would produce any immediate
savings in time to avoid massive state worker layoffs.
For the study, the researchers gathered a long - term data set of residential lawn -
watering frequency and lawn -
watering behaviors, determined the scale of weekly lawn -
watering frequency with
water restrictions alone, and tested to determine if adding the weather - based conservation strategy could improve lawn irrigation
efficiency and
water savings over
water restrictions alone.
In addition, for the very largest home
water heaters, the new
efficiency standards will for the first time require advanced technologies (heat pumps for electrically - powered products and condensing technology for gas products), paving the way for even bigger future
savings.
WaterFurnace's commercial
water source and geothermal heat pump line offers the industry the absolute best in
efficiency while maintaining the comfort and
savings your building needs.
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.
Among the must - do's on the latter list, the students said, are rest room retrofits — a relatively simple, low - cost remedy that could pay for itself in
water savings in a year — to bring all toilets, faucets, and aerators up to public standards for
efficiency.
Homes with high -
efficiency plumbing fixtures and appliances save about 30 percent of indoor
water use and yield substantial
savings on
water, sewer, and energy bills.
Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs,
savings from
efficiency improvements,
water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.
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].
In contrast, the LEED program promotes a whole - building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas that include human and environmental health, sustainable site development,
water savings, energy
efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
Highlights of the building's sustainability achievements include an Energy Star rating of 93, which places the building in the top 7 percent of similar buildings in terms of energy
efficiency; use of highly - efficient plumbing fixtures providing
water savings of approximately 17 percent; modifications to the building's irrigation system provide a 74 percent reduction in
water use for irrigation, as well as a dedicated meter to monitor ongoing performance; recycling efforts resulting in a 45 percent diversion rate of recyclables from landfill of ongoing consumable waste and a 100 percent diversion rate of durable goods from entering the waste stream; an integrated pest management plan incorporating non-toxic measures for animal and vegetative pest control; and a green cleaning pProgram, implemented as part of a comprehensive building - wide indoor air quality program.
Certification is based on such benchmarks as
water savings, energy
efficiency, and indoor environmental quality.