UC, UCLA to cut water use 20 percent by 2020

January 23, 2014

In the spirit of UCLA’s new Grand Challenge project, “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” researchers are teaming up with the Office of Sustainability to implement conservation solutions. Yoram Cohen, the director of the Water Technology Research Center as well of member of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability and assistant professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has proposed the use of a groundbreaking water filtration system which could cut campus water use by 25.5 million gallons per year.

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