AT&T, EDF Toolkit Promises 28bn Gallons in Commercial Building Water Savings ... - 0 views
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building water savings management toolkit target 2015
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cooling towers typically use 28 percent of their daily water for cooling
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The Building Water Efficiency toolkit is the result of data and lessons from pilot projects that ran across the US during the summer and fall of 2012.
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For its own operations, AT&T says it identified water savings opportunities of 14 percent to 40 percent per pilot facility and did so in a way that also made business sense.
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$100,000 to install but AT&T expects it to produce more than $60,000 in annual water and sewer savings, paying for itself in less than two years.
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$4,000 equipment upgrade to expand free air cooling will result in about $40,000 in annual savings, the company says.
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AT&T aims to reduce its approximately 1 billion gallon annual cooling tower water use by 150 million gallons per year by 2015.