Company recognized locally for water conservation efforts
Cisco is receiving an award for dry pee pee. The company’s water conservation efforts, which include the campuswide installation of waterless urinals in San Jose, are being recognized locally in the Silicon Valley.
In addition to the waterless urinals, Cisco has transformed fountains into gardens for drought-tolerant plants, according to Forbes. These and other efforts are helping Cisco reduce its water usage by about 42 million gallons a year, or 10%.
Just replacing the existing urinals in 350 bathrooms across campus with the waterless variety will save the company 1 million gallons of water per year. Drying up the fountains will save another 1 million gallons, Forbes reports.
The rest of the campus landscape won’t go totally dry though:
Throughout the campus landscape, Cisco recently installed 99 evapo-transpiration irrigation controllers with rain sensors. These controllers are Internet-connected, use online local weather data to more precisely determine the water need of a given area of landscape. They are responsible for a 21% reduction in landscape water use and will help the company save up to $90,000 a year in water, it estimates.
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