WaterSense-Labeled Products Have Saved 202 Billion Gallons In 2012 Alone

July 23rd, 2013 by Dan Thiede, CERTs

This post originally published on CleanEnergyResourceTeams.org

Americans have saved nearly $9 billion dollars and 487 billion gallons of water though the use of WaterSense-labeled products since the program’s inception in 2006—that is enough water to supply all the homes in Colorado and Arizona for a year!

WaterSense labeled products have saved 202 billion gallons in 2012 alone

Since the program’s inception in 2006—that is enough water to supply all the homes in Colorado and Arizona for a year!

The WaterSense program has more than 8,600 different models of labeled products, including toilets, faucets, faucet accessories, showerheads, flushing urinals, and wather-based irrigation controllers. “The program seeks to help consumers make smart water choices that save money and maintain high environmental standards without compromising performance. Products and services that have earned the WaterSense label have been certified to be at least 20 percent more efficient without sacrificing performance” (EPA, WaterSense).

Along with saving billions of dollars and gallons of water, the WaterSense program has also saved “64.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity needed to heat, pump, and treat water, or the amount of electricity needed to power 6.1 million homes for a year. Saving that amount of energy helps eliminate 24 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—the equivalent of planting nearly 606 million trees (EPA, WaterSense).

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Tags: certs, circumnavigation, faucets, green house gas, Minnesota, mncerts, water conservation, WaterSense

About the Author

Dan Thiede, CERTs is the Communications Coordinator for the Clean Energy Resource Teams, or CERTs, at the University of Minnesota. CERTs works to advance the adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in communities across Minnesota by helping people learn, connect, and act.

http://www.hollywoodrounder.blogspot.com Mark_in_Hollywood

The EPA has some wonderful ideas. They also seem to have some crackpot ideas, too.

The City of San Francisco, is/was an early adopter of the EPA’s WaterSense toilets. The City financed the installation of about 16,000 of these devices with a financial rebate to the citizen/consumer.

According to the manager of the San Francisco Wastewater Department, Tommy Moala, these “High Efficiency Toilets” (as the EPA calls them) don’t have sufficient flow of water through the sewer system to flush the waste. There are approximately 300,000 residences in San Francisco. Now, (no pun intended) there is a stink in San Francisco. And the City is pouring chlorine bleach in the sewer system in the amount of 12 million pounds a year to ameliorate the smell of human feces problem.

Saving water is a great idea. Ruining one’s home and environment isn’t.

I don’t own stock in a business related to water, plumbing fixtures, construction, architecture, construction or finance … I’m trying to say I don’t have a financial interest in what I write about at:

http://high-efficiency-toilet.blogspot.com/

There I have tried to chronicle the development of how these low water use toilets came into existence and the consequences of violating the laws of physics, because politicians think that’s a wise idea.

I hope you consider what the government is doing and report on it constructively.