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UCI Receives Excellence in Action Award for Water Conservation

Thursday, June 09, 2022

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) were honored with the 2022 Award of Excellence from the WateReuse Association. The national award recognizes UCI’s long-standing partnership with the IRWD as one of its earliest partners in the Water Star business program using IRWD recycled water on campus for more than five decades. The award notes: “Irvine Ranch Water District and the University of California, Irvine are celebrating more than 50 years of recycled water partnership with the completion of the university’s Central Plant Recycled Water Conversion. The project uses cooling towers to chill air-conditioning wate...

City of Irvine Joins National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation During Earth Month

Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan has joined mayors across the country for the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation by asking residents and businesses to make a long-term commitment to manage water resources more wisely. The annual challenge, April 1-30, is a nonprofit national community service campaign presented by the Wyland Foundation that encourages leaders to inspire their residents to make a series of simple pledges to use water more efficiently, reduce pollution, and save energy. TAKE THE PLEDGE “We are in the third year of a drought, so it is more important than ever that we take action to conserve water,&rdquo...

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