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Recent Advances in Water‐conserving Plumbing Products
Author(s) -
McHale Jim
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10060.x
Subject(s) - compromise , agency (philosophy) , atlanta , metropolitan area , third party , business , water conservation , environmental planning , environmental science , computer science , internet privacy , political science , geography , water resources , law , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , archaeology , biology
This article discusses how today's generation of water‐conserving plumbing products are completely re‐engineered to deliver conservation without compromise; however, there remains the issue of winning back the trust of end‐users, installers, and legislators. The article describes an effort to convince metropolitan Atlanta's 4 million residents to retrofit their bathrooms for water efficiency, including water‐efficiency testing to prove that high‐efficiency plumbing products carrying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense® label and/or those tested by respected third party agencies can be trusted to save water.