Valley Water Helps Hotels Cut Costs And Improve Environmental Credentials
Santa Clara Valley Water District is helping hotels and other businesses cut costs, and improve their bottom line while enhancing their environmental credentials by achieving significant water savings.
San Jose (Issues Wire / Vocus) November 10, 2008 -- Santa Clara Valley Water District is helping hotels and other businesses cut costs, and improve their bottom line while enhancing their environmental credentials by achieving significant water savings.
Doubletree Hotel San Jose joined a growing list of businesses, apartment buildings and schools taking advantage of Valley Water’s Commercial High-Efficiency Toilet Installation Program by replacing 503 old water-guzzling toilets.
With the new toilets provided by Valley Water in place, the hotel can now expect to save more than 10,800 gallons per day or nearly 4,000,000 gallons a year, the equivalent of six Olympic-sized swimming pools.
“Based on the results of similar replacements at Doubletree Hotels in other places, we expect to reduce our water usage costs by about 40 percent,” said Sam Claude, director of operations, Doubletree Hotel San Jose. “Doubletree is steadfast in seeking opportunities to align itself with greener business practices. Valley Water’s program offered an obvious way to achieve that and continue our own ongoing efforts to reduce our environmental footprint.”
“This is really a win-win situation for both the Doubletree San Jose and Santa Clara County. At a time when the state is experiencing a drought, and both the economy and environment are suffering, our Commercial High-Efficiency Toilet Installation Program offers local businesses a free and painless way to cut costs and save water,” said Valley Water CEO Olga Martin Steele.
The program also helps businesses achieve the 10 percent voluntary cut back that Valley Water has called for. The voluntary cutback is necessitated by the state-wide drought, which has been further compounded by a 2007 court ruling requiring severe restriction on pumping water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Delta delivers about one-third of the Bay Area’s annual water supplies.
The High-Efficiency Toilet Installation Program, which is available to qualifying businesses as well as apartment complexes and schools in Santa Clara County, replaces older tank-type toilets that flush at 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) or higher, with new high-efficiency toilets, which flush at 1.28 gpf or less.
The cost of the new toilets and labor for removal and installation are completely free to program participants, with funding being partially provided by the cities of San Jose and Palo Alto, the California Water Service Company and a grant from the California Department of Water Resources.
Since the inception of the program in 2004, approximately 820 Santa Clara County businesses and institutions have taken advantage of the program, with more than 11,000 high-efficiency toilets being installed.
Valley Water offers many other commercial water conservation programs. To learn more about these and other conservation programs, visit www.valleywater.org or call 408.265.2607, ext. 2554.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District manages wholesale drinking water resources and provides stewardship for the county's watersheds, including 10 reservoirs, hundreds of miles of streams and groundwater basins. Valley Water also provides flood protection throughout Santa Clara County.
Contact: Susan Siravo
Office: (408) 265-2607, ext. 2290
Mobile: (408) 398-0754
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