Spring Newsletter Volume I, Issue II
Inside this issue:
Hydration Stations
2
TGIF Projects in the News
2
Wurster Hall Sub-metering
3
Custodial Communications
4
TGIF by the Numbers
5
“End the Cycle”
6
Berkeley Student Food Collective
7
Announcements
8
Springing into Green Action
10
Real-time water metering in campus buildings: Making “blue” part of a green initiative! by Lindsay Miller We have ordered all of the water meter parts and electronic components in order to connect Stanley, University, MLK, Latimer, Koshland, Minor Addition, Dwinelle, LeConte, McCone, Tan, and Life Sciences Addition to the online water use monitoring system (called Obvius). Stanley’s water use data is online now and just needs final configuration to allow
TGIF Project Spotlight: Water Metering & Conservation
units of water use to show up in gallons instead of “pulses” (see graphs). We are working closely with Physical Plant Campus Services (PPCS) to coordinate the installation and connection of all this equipment. Within months, the campus community will be able to view the real-time water use data all of the above buildings on the Obvius system. A thorough audit was completed on all of the toilets and urinals in Wurster Hall to determine how many gallons of water go down the drain with every flush. Results of this audit allowed us to identify the
most wasteful fixtures, 10 of which will be replaced with high-efficiency fixtures in the coming months. We found that 72% of toilets
and 69% of urinals use more water than their rated 1.6 gallons per flush (see pie chart). Additionally, a (continued on pg. 2)