Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.76
Liaison	Allison Jenks
Submission Date	Jan. 26, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

New Mexico State University
OP-22: Water Use

Status

Score

Responsible Party

0.92 / 6.00

Jack Kirby
Assistant Director
Env. Health and Safety

"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Level of ”Physical Risk QUANTITY” for the institution’s main campus as indicated by the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas:

Extremely High

Part 1

Total water use (potable and non-potable combined):

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use	---	866,198,980 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	575,444,298 Gallons	580,799,014 Gallons

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Year	Jan. 1, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015
Baseline Year	Jan. 1, 2011	Dec. 31, 2011

If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:

A brief description of when and why the water use baseline was adopted:

We used 2011 for the baseline year because this is the first year we did the STARS report.

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	3,892	4,708
Number of employees resident on-site	18	18
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds	131	202
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	18,255	20,936
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty)	3,514	3,854
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	1,271	1,427
Weighted campus users	16,482	18,905.75

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	34,913.50 Gallons	30,720.76 Gallons

Percentage reduction in potable water use per weighted campus user from baseline:

Part 2

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	5,879,746 Gross square feet	5,363,804 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	97.87 Gallons per square foot	108.28 Gallons per square foot

Percentage reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area from baseline:

9.62

Part 3

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 3 of this credit? (reductions in total water use per acre/hectare of vegetated grounds):

Yes

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	250 Acres	250 Acres

Total water use (potable + non-potable) per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use per unit of vegetated grounds	0 Gallons per acre	3,464,795.92 Gallons per acre

Percentage reduction in total water use per unit of vegetated grounds from baseline:

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Optional Fields

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives, e.g. initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices such as signage and competitions:

in 2014 we did the Campus Conservation Nationals. Housing and Residential Life, the Office of Sustainability, and the Facilities and Services Utilities Director all participated. Part of the competition was water reduction as well as energy reduction.

A brief description of the institution's water recovery and reuse initiatives:

Our campus is on a hill that starts at the Organ Mountains to the east and the Rio Grande river to the west. We have many retention ponds that capture the water, areas along sidewalks that divert the water into plantings, and curb cuts in our parking lots that allow the water to run off into landscaped areas.

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives (e.g. building retrofits):

The Facilities and Services department has initiatives and policies where plumbing fixtures and mechanical fittings, as well as our steam system all use the most efficient fixtures possible. Through our Energy Services Agreement thirty buildings were retrofitted with fittings that helped with water efficiency. We also have a program where we are re-insulating all the steam pipes in our underground system. When any old plumbing fixture breaks and needs to be either replaced or repaired, it is policy that we use low-flow fixtures.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

https://facilities.nmsu.edu/we-care/ecm/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

NMSU 2014 Water System Master Plan Update.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Baseline year for water use is 2011 Baseline year for vegetated grounds is 2015 (at 250 acres) NMSU 2014 Water System Master Plan Update: http://bit.ly/2a198RQ