Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.32
Liaison Andrea Trimble
Submission Date Feb. 15, 2012
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

University of Virginia
OP-22: Water Consumption

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 7.00 Andrew Greene
Sustainability Planner
Office of the Architect
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Water consumption, 2005 baseline year:
463,414,500 Gallons

Water consumption, performance year :
537,999,500 Gallons

On-campus residents, 2005:
6,755

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
24,084

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
2,188

On-campus residents, performance year:
6,587

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
25,450

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
2,639

The website URL where information about the institution’s water conservation initiatives is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Total water usage in fiscal year 2011 is down almost 19 percent from the peak in 1999 despite a 20.6 percent increase in gross square feet and a 17.4 percent increase in the number of faculty, staff, and students since that year. While the University continues to benefit from the many water conservation initiatives that have been implemented, the construction of energy and water intensive research and hospital facilities in the last couple of years is starting to cause an upward trend in water consumption.


Total water usage in fiscal year 2011 is down almost 19 percent from the peak in 1999 despite a 20.6 percent increase in gross square feet and a 17.4 percent increase in the number of faculty, staff, and students since that year. While the University continues to benefit from the many water conservation initiatives that have been implemented, the construction of energy and water intensive research and hospital facilities in the last couple of years is starting to cause an upward trend in water consumption.

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