Flush This

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Flush This
Dual-Flushing Our Way Into The Future
Malcolm Ford Chris Groh Thomas Minter Hadley
Sauers Anna Simmons
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Local Water Issues

• Santa Barbara is in an area of limited water
• While we are currently not experiencing drought,
  there is always this possibility
• The city is currently addressing these issues by
  offering water consumers incentives in the form
  of rebates and audits and free water conserving
  fixtures (showerheads)
• These efforts focus on increased efficiency

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So what are we going to accomplish?

• Concentrated efforts from campus wide to Campbell
  Hall
• Collected data at Campbell Hall and modeled it
  after an existing study done in Girvetz Hall
• By implementing the Uppercut, we calculated that
  32 less water will be used per year
• This breaks the myth commonly held that
  curtailment---using equipment less
  intensively--is the best way to conserve
• When in fact, the best thing to do is increase
  resource efficiency by implementing a
  technological fix

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These fixtures are effective at increasing
efficiencyso why isnt everyone dual-flushing?

• Internally, individuals resist change (flushing
  up would seem unnatural) and because we are not
  currently in a drought, the need to conserve is
  not as immediate
• Externally, the technology is not widely
  available or known about, is not immediately
  economically beneficial (need govt incentives)
  and its harder to change behaviors within a
  large corporate structure (the UCs)

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We encountered some barriers within the
University

• After speaking to Perrin Pellegrin, she informed
  us that trying to implement Dual Flush Units
  (rather than handles) was not economically
  feasible for the University
• This addresses a myth commonly held that
  financial incentives are enough to encourage
  pro-environmental behaviors
• This led us to the Uppercut, a less expensive
  alternative

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Method for implementation

• Apply for grant through SPF requesting funding to
  implement in Campbell with the hopes of
  campus-wide implementation
• Because SPF has such a wide connection with the
  university and surrounding community, we can
  utilize their resources along with ours for
  community management of this program

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In order to conserve our ecological capital,
water, we must combine strategies from existing
projects, such as the waterless urinal projects
on campus, along with the strategies learned
throughout the course of this project, and break
through barriers in order to implement dual flush
fixtures throughout our campus
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