We are establishing controls to ensure we remain legally compliant and minimise our impacts through the implementation of our Environmental Management System.
Water use is more important than most people think in the UK. This is for two reasons: Firstly, significant amounts of energy and chemicals are used to treat and pump drinking water – which has an environmental impact, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Secondly, Norwich is one of the driest places in the UK, receiving only half the annual rainfall of Sydney, Australia; so water conservation is an important regional issue which can prevent shortages over the summer months. Historically, water efficiency is not something we have focused on but that is changing.
The CarbonCrew (join here) are raising awareness amongst staff and students and we are developing a long term strategy to coordinate on-going improvement and maintenance programmes to increase our water efficiency and control water and ground pollution.
Our key objectives is: to prevent ground and water pollution and, minimise our consumption of non-renewable and environmentally sensitive resources by embedding integrated life-cycle approaches in our decision making.
Our current targets are to:
• Reduce water consumption by 10% per student over 2008/9 levels by July 2013.
• Reduce CO2e emissions from water and waste water by 10%/student/year over 2008/09* levels (24.14Kg CO2e/s/a) baseline by July 2013.
(August-July)
(*denotes complies with DEFRA and/or Global Reporting Initiative guidelines)
Water use is more important than most people think in the UK. This is for two reasons: Firstly, significant amounts of energy and chemicals are used to treat and pump drinking water – which has an environmental impact, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Secondly, Norwich is one of the driest places in the UK, receiving only half the annual rainfall of Sydney, Australia; so water conservation is an important regional issue which can prevent shortages over the summer months. Historically, water efficiency is not something we have focused on but that is changing.
The CarbonCrew (join here) are raising awareness amongst staff and students and we are developing a long term strategy to coordinate on-going improvement and maintenance programmes to increase our water efficiency and control water and ground pollution.
Our key objectives is: to prevent ground and water pollution and, minimise our consumption of non-renewable and environmentally sensitive resources by embedding integrated life-cycle approaches in our decision making.
Our current targets are to:
• Reduce water consumption by 10% per student over 2008/9 levels by July 2013.
• Reduce CO2e emissions from water and waste water by 10%/student/year over 2008/09* levels (24.14Kg CO2e/s/a) baseline by July 2013.
Key water indicators-
| Key performance indicator | 2008/9 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | Change in last year |
| Total water consumption* | 382,987 m³ | 358,542 m³ | 362,097 m³ | ↑ |
| Water consumption per student* | 26.88 m³ | 25.05 m³ | 22.84 m³ | ↓ |
| CO2e emissions from water use and waste water | 344 tonnes | 322 tonnes | 325 tonnes | ↑ |
(August-July)
(*denotes complies with DEFRA and/or Global Reporting Initiative guidelines)
