Other measures such
as water savings and environmentally - preferable materials round out this project's «green» credentials.
While the current requirement for restaurants to only offer drinking water by request does bring awareness to the issue, it does not represent a
major water savings.
Certification is based on such benchmarks
as water savings, energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality.
Mulroy instituted what she calls «soft conservation» measures to save water in Las Vegas — advertising
water savings on billboards, running community education programs and banning artificial lakes in new developments.
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.
An average home can realize huge
water savings with a grey water system installed by a licensed plumber.
After analyzing 45 studies from eight countries, Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, and a Ph.D. student in Wang's group, Xuefei Lu, concluded the greening likely stems from the impact of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on
plant water savings and consequent increases in available soil water.
A reduction of irrigation just 1 inch / acre / year in North Texas High Plains corn acreage would result in a
total water savings of nearly 13 billion gallons, according to the nomination.
The uniformly spaced plants crowd out weed growth, the ideal soil mix reduces the need every inch of soil remains aerated and fluffy, all areas of the bed can be reached easily for tending, and the small footprint
means water savings.
To save water — our summers are secret droughts — we accrue 32
percent water savings through low flow fixtures.
Listing agents should disclose that there is an additional tax assessment on the property tax bill and explain how the energy and / or
water savings help offset the assessment.
- Free technical assistance that included, two goal - setting design charrettes, specialized daylighting and acoustic analysis, material specifications in the areas of low - emitting finishes and
water savings fixtures, and issues of design team / contractor interface.
Company predicts
annual water savings of over 275,000 gallons and $ 260,000 in labor savings, just by updating their tank cleaning process to include Gamajet rotary impingement devices.
A major NSW regional council has introduced a supernatant recycling system into the filtration plant in the town water supply, helping to conserve potable water and providing
substantial water savings over the long term.
More than 50 different eco-labelling programs operate in Australia, from energy and
water savings ratings to Forest Stewardship Council, Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade trust marks, all aimed at helping consumers make the right choice.
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
Going forward, Wang said, the positive effect of carbon dioxide -
induced water savings may eventually be offset by the negative effect of carbon dioxide - induced temperature increases when the temperature increase crosses a certain threshold.
She negotiated innovative swaps in
which water savings in one place could be conveyed to another.
Countywide
irrigation water savings ranged from 4 percent to 9 percent, with per capita savings largest in medium density environments, or those with a mix of buildings and landscaping.
However, the provinces of Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui, produce wheat quite efficiently, and their exports lead to large
national water savings for both rainfall and irrigation water.
However, this one - pronged approach of water restrictions that involves pre-set and arbitrary lawn - watering schedules does not always result in
actual water savings so Tara Root, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Geosciences in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and Felicia D. Survis, who recently earned her Ph.D. at FAU, decided to do some research.
In additional experiments,
small water savings were associated with tomato photosynthesis inside the magenta glasshouses.
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Do It Yourself (DIY) Energy and
Water Savings Toolkits are available for checkout at all branches of the Sonoma County Library.
Policy Bob Wilkinson, professor and water director at University of California's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, believes the key to capturing energy and
water savings lies in a simple measurement: the energy intensity of water.
Replacing lawns with California natives or Mediterranean plants has a host of benefits
beyond water savings: colorful blooms that attract birds and pollinators; ease of maintenance; and less need for fertilizers and pesticides.
Other air pollutants affecting public health also decrease, and
water savings accrue in many regions.
Also, optimizing operations across UCSB's multiple cooling towers, which use chilled water to control temperature in rooms and buildings across campus, could achieve millions of gallons in
water savings annually.
Replacing aging water - hungry coal plants with technologies that require little or no water, like renewables and energy - efficient technologies that reduce overall electricity demand, would lead to significant
water savings across the country and a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
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].
Last year, Canadian engineering firm Enermodal earned LEED Platinum for its Toronto offices and has reported 37 per cent tenant energy savings and 53 per cent
indoor water savings.
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bigger water savings may come from Cyber-Rain XC, which lets you hand over the chore of watering your lawn to your Windows PC.
We hypothesize that enhanced levels of atmospheric CO2 play an important role in the observed greening through the CO2 effect on
plant water savings and consequent available soil water increases.