Sustainability Through Water Conservation

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Sustainability & Water Conservation

In efforts to make facilities more sustainable, many locations look first to reduce their usage of our most precious resource, water. With the impending Senate Bill Number 7, requiring municipalities to cut their usages and rate increases, many locations are wondering how this impacts them.

These questions will be answered with the help of Mark Gentili of the LADWP. Mr. Gentili will discuss the Senate Bill, its requirements, the reductions that are required and by when, and why water costs have not increased already. He will also address areas that the LAWDP and other municipalities have identified as having the greatest potential in reducing facilities water consumptions. Mr. Gentili, will then specifically discuss, one of the largest water consumers in the higher education marketplace, HVAC cooling systems. He will discuss the rebates that are available to facilities to incentivize reducing water consumption of these systems as well as the funding available through the Technical Assistance Programs (TAP) targeted to implement programs resulting in substantial water use reduction.

The seminar will conclude with several solutions that are available to attain the water use reduction as well as obtain these rebate and funding programs.

Presenter:

Mark Gentilli
Supervisor
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LA DWP)
(213)367-8556