Reducing water usage for a building the size of the UW Tower is no easy task. It took the Tower's operations staff nearly a year to replace every toilet and urinal in the tower with new, low-flush units, but it was well worth it. The project is estimated to save up to 37 million gallons of water over the next 15 years.
The move to newer toilets not only saves water and money for the university, but by standardizing all the fixtures throughout the Tower the operations staff was able to reduce the amount of spare...