The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has honored Northern Water with a WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award for its work promoting water efficiency.
WaterSense, a voluntary partnership program sponsored by EPA, is both a label for water-efficient products, programs and homes and a resource for helping consumers learn ways to save water, according to a news release. More than 2,100 manufacturers, builders, retailers, utilities, government and nonprofit organizations partner with WaterSense to promote water-efficient products, homes and programs.
Northern Water was recognized for its efforts to help commercial customers save water. In the past year, Northern Water performed 48 landscape consultations, inspecting landscape conditions and irrigation components, and recommending WaterSense labeled irrigation controllers and sprinkler components to help improve efficiency, the release added.
Northern Water was recognized at a meeting in Las Vegas.
“The WaterSense program and products provide an ideal foundation to promote, facilitate and celebrate water efficiency,” said Northern Water’s Water Efficiency Department Manager Frank Kinder. “The public-private partnership delivers sustained water savings and high performance, allowing comprehensive conservation of this vitally important resource on which we all rely. We appreciate the value WaterSense provides to all stakeholders.”
Since 2006, more than 40,000 certified water-efficient plumbing and irrigation products have helped consumers and businesses save 7.5 trillion gallons of water; the amount of energy needed to pump, treat, and heat water by 880 billion kilowatt hours; and $171 billion in water and energy bills, the release said. These savings also helped prevent 337 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is equivalent to planting 5.6 billion trees.
For more information about WaterSense, visit www.epa.gov/watersense.
