Overall Rating	Platinum
Overall Score	87.91
Liaison	Pierre Lemay
Submission Date	Dec. 19, 2022

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Université Laval
OP-21: Water Use

Status

Score

Responsible Party

4.00 / 4.00

Pierre Lemay
Development Advisor
Office of the Vice Rector, External and International Affairs and Health

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Level of ”Physical Risk Quantity” for the institution’s main campus as indicated by the World Resources Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas:

Low to Medium

Part 1. Reduction in potable water use per person

Total water withdrawal (potable and non-potable combined):

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal	114,085,718 Gallons	266,696,047 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	114,085,718 Gallons	266,696,047 Gallons

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Period	May 1, 2020	April 30, 2021
Baseline Period	Jan. 1, 2005	Dec. 31, 2005

If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:

A brief description of when and why the water use baseline was adopted:

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Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	2,300	2,300
Number of employees resident on-site	0	0
Number of other individuals resident on-site	0	0
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	38,210	30,137
Full-time equivalent of employees	5,442	4,996
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	14,768	695
Weighted campus users	22,238	26,403.50

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	5,130.21 Gallons	10,100.78 Gallons

Percentage reduction in potable water use per weighted campus user from baseline:

49.21

Part 2. Reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	7,772,684 Gross square feet	6,498,958 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	14.68 Gallons per square foot	41.04 Gallons per square foot

Percentage reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area from baseline:

64.23

Part 3. Reduction in total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	266.87 Acres	274 Acres

Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds	427,495.48 Gallons per acre	973,343.24 Gallons per acre

Percentage reduction in total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds from baseline:

56.08

Optional Fields

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives:

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A brief description of the institution's water recovery and reuse initiatives:

Building Services uses non-potable water (water flushed from the fire hydrant system) to water plants and bushes and clean the grounds.

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s water conservation and efficiency efforts is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The total full-time equivalent student enrollment in OP 2 differ from IC 3. The discrepancies are due to the referential year. For IC-3, we presented the most recent data (2021-2022). However, for OP-21, because the most recent data we had for Water Use were for 2020-2021, we also used full-time equivalent data of 2020-2021.

Same for "Full-time equivalent of employees" and "Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education".