"A route to a resourceful water efficiency exploration: Residential Water usage of Water Efficiency section of USGBC, LEED Program"

A project of water usage was assigned to the freshman students of Architectural and Construction management of the State College in fall 2009.In this project all students recorded their water usage for seven days and were able to calculate their average consumption of water per day.The results of this assignment were analyzed by students using Excel software statistical package.The goal of this project was to alert the students to water efficiency which is one of the categories of (LEED) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.Residential buildings are major users of potable water supply and the bathrooms are usually the smallest room in the household but using the most water so the focus of project was on the fixtures in bathroom.Therefore awaking the students to usage of water is a big step toward water conservation."According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) upgrading toilets can save up to 11,000 gallons of water per household per year and, up to two billion gallons of water per day national wide"! 5