Overall Rating	Bronze - expired
Overall Score	36.72
Liaison	Lindsey Abernathy
Submission Date	July 17, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

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University of Mississippi
OP-22: Water Use

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Responsible Party

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Lindsey Abernathy
Associate Director
Office of Sustainability

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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

Part 1

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

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use	---	298,600,000 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	333,400,000 Gallons	298,600,000 Gallons

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

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Year	July 1, 2017	June 30, 2018
Baseline Year	July 1, 2016	June 30, 2017

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:

The baseline water year was adopted in 2017 when the Office of Sustainability and a faculty member started working on a campus water footprint report.

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	4,709	5,123
Number of employees resident on-site	20	23
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds	7	7
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	22,824	22,650
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty)	3,015.66	2,993.33
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	433.70	430.35
Weighted campus users	20,243.72	20,203.24

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	16,469.31 Gallons	14,779.81 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	7,025,755 Gross square feet	7,025,755 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	47.45 Gallons per square foot	42.50 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	551 Acres	551 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	541,923.77 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:

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

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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):

Landscaping Services uses efficient irrigation control to save water.

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

https://olemiss.edu/depts/landscape/irrigationcontrol.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Not all buildings that contribute to the GSF reported above are serviced by campus water. However, the water usage reported focused only on water pumped on campus. We have noted this and will make efforts to increase consistency in the future. However, because we did not receive points for this credit, we left it as is for this submission.