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ConsultUCD Spotlight
Dr Sarah Cotterill, UCD School of Civil Engineering and UCD Dooge Centre for Water Resources Research, completed a consultancy study entitled ‘(opens in a new window)A Framework for Improving Domestic Water Conservation in Ireland’, which was commissioned by An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum) through ConsultUCD.
A key finding of the study, which aimed to explore mechanisms to encourage and facilitate domestic water conservation measures in Ireland, was that almost a fifth of the energy used in Irish homes is used for heating water, and therefore a relatively small reduction in household water use (of say 20%) in all homes in Ireland, could lead to a significant reduction (hundreds of thousands of tonnes) of greenhouse gas emissions a year.