Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	66.97
Liaison	Teddy Lhoutellier
Submission Date	March 13, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Miami
OP-22: Water Use

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Teddy Lhoutellier
Sustainability Manager
Environmental Health and Safety

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

Low to Medium

Part 1

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

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use	469,386,066 Gallons Date Revised: March 23, 2020 University of Miami requested that AASHE Staff correct a mistake in this reporting field for the reason specified below. Previous Value: --- Explanation: Total water use for the performance year of FY 2018 was recorded but not published	398,180,013 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	412,935,166 Gallons	341,065,713 Gallons

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

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Year	June 1, 2017	May 31, 2018
Baseline Year	June 1, 2012	May 31, 2013

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:

FY13 is the start date of our most recent updated GHG inventory to ACUPCC/2nd Nature

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	4,193	4,216
Number of employees resident on-site	23	21
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds	45	30
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	16,397	15,613
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty)	9,267	7,827
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	546	369
Weighted campus users	19,937.50	18,392.50

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	20,711.48 Gallons	18,543.74 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	9,936,736 Gross square feet	9,271,568 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	41.56 Gallons per square foot	36.79 Gallons per square foot

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

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	79.20 Acres	79.20 Acres

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

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use per unit of vegetated grounds	5,926,591.74 Gallons per acre	5,027,525.42 Gallons per acre

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

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:

Take Back the Tap Student led initiative: As Orientation week kicks in, a Green U and ECO Agency Student government tradition is back: a reusable bottle is offered to every freshman. Students are encouraged to drink tap water, use our water filling stations and sign the pledge on Takebackthetap.org

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

Rainwater Harvesting at the South Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music - LEED® Platinum A large on-site cistern captures and treats rainwater for reuse through irrigation and to flush all toilets and urinals in the building, replacing the need to use potable (drinking) water. Overall, this reduces the project’s potable water usage by 87% for interior plumbing fixtures, and by 100% for irrigation needs. The building started to be occupied at the end of FY2015. http://www.miami.edu/finance/index.php/green_u/green_building/frost_school_of_music_leed_platinum/

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 University has implemented practices and technologies to optimize the campus’s water use and further promote the University’s water conservation efforts. Our initiatives in this area include: • The replacement of all resident halls and apartments shower heads to low flow models. • The installation of timer setting controls on the campus irrigation systems. • An ongoing leak detection program to prevent excessive water consumption. • An ongoing replacement program of urinals and toilets to low flow models. • An ongoing conversion of campus irrigation systems to well water in lieu of domestic water usage. ECO Agency promotes Water Conservation at the Wellness Center Low flow shower heads installation in the Men's locker room allowed the Center to achieve substantial savings.

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

https://greenu.miami.edu/topics/water/index.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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