Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER
Water Conservation
Presented at the
Civil Engineer Corps Officer’s School
Energy Manager’s Courses
by:
Daniel T. Magro
Naval Facilities Engineering Service
Center

CONGRATULATIONS
You’re
the
Base’s
Water Conservation Officer!

WATER CONSERVATION
WHY?
EPACT 1992
EO 12902
Environmental Concerns
NAVAL F A C I LCritical
ITIES EN Nature
G I N E E Rof
I N Water
G SERVICE CENTER
WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

AVAILABILITY
 97% Salt Water.
 75% of remaining
water is Glaciers.
 Only 9% of
rainfall available
for beneficial use.

Office/Admin Buildings
Restrooms
45%
Cooling &
Heating
30%
Landscaping
25%

Family Housing/Residential
Bathroom Laundry
Dishwasher
Sinks 14%
6%
11%
Showers
19%
Toilets
Kitchen 45%
Sinks
5%

WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

How Much Does Your
Water Cost?
How Much Water Do

You Use?

How Much Does Water Cost?
 Free - “We Pump It

Ourselves”
 Unit Rate Shown on
Utility Bill
 No Standard Calculation or Formula
For Determining Water Cost
How Much Does Water Cost?
 Can’t just use an average value
- $0.87 at Bangor, Washington
- $4.22 at Navy Post Graduate School
 Depends on many factors
- How deep are your wells?
- How pure is the water?
- Surface or groundwater supply?

How Much Water Is Used?
 Showers: 1 - 8 gpm
avg 5 min pcd
 Toilets: 1.6 - 6 gpf
Flushed 7 times/day
4 - home
3 - work/school
 Urinals: 0 - 2 gpf - Used 75% of time
WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

Sounds Great, But...
 What kind of projects
will save water at my
Base?
 Are there any projects
that will really make
an impact and have
competitive SIR’s?

Once-Through Cooling
 Significant water
savings
 Very common
 Options:
- Recycle
- Reuse

Water Reclamation
 Significant Water
Savings Possible
 Gaining Popularity
 Examples
- Florida
- Texas
- California
 Highly Regulated
 Need Positive Image

NFESC Leak Detection Program
 Equipment
 Sonic Surveying Instruments
 Correlation Equipment
 Ultrasonic Metering Equipment
 Experience
 Twelve years of metering experience
 Results
 Up to 20% of total production identified
 Typically will find 5 - 10 %

Other Possibilities
 Greywater Systems
 Subsurface Irrigation
 Public Awareness
 Weather Forcasting
 Nozzles!
 Freeze Protection Improvements
 Others - Limited only by your creativeness

WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

WATER AUDITS
 30% Reduction
MCAS Iwakuni
 48% Reduction
NAS PAX River
 56% Reduction
NADEP Cherry Point
 Your base?

WATER PROJECTS
 11 Projects on
current Short List
 320 Million
gallon savings
 $810,000

WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

Water Conservation Support
 Navy Water Conservation
Guide
 MIL-HDBK-1165
 EFD’s
 NFESC
 Software:
- IWRAPS
- WATERGY
- ESC Spreadsheets

WATER CONSERVATION
 STATISTICS
 COST OF WATER
 APPLICATIONS
 RESULTS
 ASSISTANCE
 AWARENESS

Start Saving Water Today
 Bathroom
– 5 min showers. (Saves 75
gal/wk/person)
– low-flow showerheads. (Saves 230
gal/wk)
– Shallow baths. (Saves 100
gal/wk/person)
– Water displacement toilet device.
(Saves 50 gal/wk)
– Ultra-low flush toilets. (Saves 350
gal/wk)

 Bathroom (Con’t)
• Collect cold water while waiting for hot
water. Use for watering plants.
(Saves 50 gal/wk/person)
• Repair toilet leaks. Drop teaspoon of food
coloring in tank. If color appears in bowl
after 15 min, replace flapper valve. (Saves
100 gal/wk/toilet)
• Turn water off while brushing teeth.
(Saves 35 gal/wk/person)

 Around The House
– Repair leaky faucets, fixtures
and pipes around your home.
(Saves 150 gal/leak)
– Wash only full laundry loads.
(Saves 100 gal/wk)
– Collect washing machine rinse
water in utility sink. Use it
later to water indoor plants.
(Saves 50 gal/wk)

 Outdoors
– Water lawns once a week,
early in the morning or
after the sun sets.
(Saves 250 gal/wk)
– Adjust sprinklers- don’t
spray sidewalks. Test
sprinkler systems periodically for proper application.
(Varies~ 250 gal/wk)
– Set lawn mower blades one notch higher. Use Bark, peat moss,
or gravel to cover bare ground in gardens and around trees.
(Saves 200 gal/wk)
 Outdoors (Con’t)
– Never hose driveways,
patios, or sidewalks.
Use broom.
(Saves 100 gal/wk)
– Cover swimming pools.
(Saves 250 gal/wk)
– Don’t leave hose run continuously when washing cars.
(Saves 150 gal/wk)

 Kitchen
– Dishwasher full loads only.

(Saves 30 gal/wk)
– Put food waste in trash/rinse plates
w/short blasts of water. (Saves 60
gal/wk)
– Run garbage disposal on alternate
days. (Saves 25
gal/wk)

Water Resources Management
Distribution of Water
Fresh Water Atmosphere 0.035%
Groundwater
3.0% Rivers 0.030%
<750 m 11.0% Soil Moist 0.060%
Groundwater Lakes 0.300%
Ocean Water
>750 m 11.0%
97.0%
Icesheets and
Glaciers
75.0%

Water Use-Where it goes...
Total Water
100 Units
Evaporation and Streamflow

Evapotranspiration 29 Units
71 Units
Not Withdraw
Non-economic from streamflow
Evaporation 20 Units
32 Units
Evapotranspiration Irrigation Industry Municipal

Crops, pasture, forest 3 Units 5 Units /
39 Units Rural
1 Unit

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