Bay Area Water Conservation and Reuse Awards

03/21/2019

Join us today from 4-5 pm at the Bay Area Water Conservation & Reuse Awards at the Pacific Energy Building, 111 Howard St. in San Francisco. Congratulations to our winners:

The Town of Hillsborough (Government)
WaterBit, Inc. (Water & Energy)
William J Worthen Foundation (Education)
Our City Forest (Organization)
Paula Kehoe (Water Champion)

For more information about today's event, visit:

Visit: http://www.waterconservationshowcase.com/ Event Highlights: • 8 Education Sessions (GBCI/AIA Approved)• 4 Interactive workshops with experts• 30+ Exhibitors showcasing the latest water-conserving products & services• Networking with up to 1,000 local professionals• Complimentary lun...

02/08/2019

The Bay Area Water Conservation and Reuse Awards (formerly Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards) is now accepting applications for awards - deadline is February 15th. Please help spread the word and visit https://bawcra.org for more information.

The Bay Area Water Conservation & Reuse Awards (formerly the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards) recognizes organizations, agencies, businesses and individuals whose programs and leadership advance water conservation and reuse in the Bay Area. Applications will be accepted until February 15, 2...

02/08/2019

We have a new logo and a new name! We've expanded our geographic area and mission to include the entire Bay Area and water re-use in addition to conservation. We are now the Bay Area Water Conservation & Reuse Awards and we are accepting applications for our 2019 awards. Visit https://bawcra.org for more information.

03/30/2018

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an unforgettable evening at the 10th annual SIlicon Valley Water Awards.

If you'd like to share your photos with us, please email [email protected]

03/19/2018

Only 3 more days! Get your tickets at www.waterawards.org

02/07/2018

Thank you to Service by Medallion for sponsoring a special reception at our upcoming awards ceremony. Service by Medallion is a large janitorial and maintenance provider serving more than 200 clients and cleaning over 30 million square feet of real estate. They received a Silicon Valley Water Conservation Award in 2016. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, please visit https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/Mjc5MTU= to purchase them.

12/04/2017

It's that time of year again! The application and nomination process is now open for the 2018 Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards. You can find all the details and an online application form at http://www.waterawards.org. Deadline for applications and nominations is January 19, 2018.

2018 will mark our 10th annual Water Awards ceremony, so we’re planning a special evening event with a reception and other activities. The date will be Thursday, March 22 (World Water Day). Please mark your calendars.

Please help spread the word about the 2018 Water Awards - share this post with your friends and colleagues!

04/07/2017

Some nice coverage in the San Jose Mercury News for the water awards winners - congratulations to all!
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/24/stanford-former-assemblyman-rich-gordon-among-water-conservation-award-recipients/

The annual Silicon Valley Water Conservation awards were presented at an award ceremony on Wednesday, which was World Water Day, to seven Peninsula schools, businesses and government leaders for th…

04/07/2017

03/26/2017

Congratulations to Frank Jahn who won both the Education Award and the special Lifetime Achievement award this year. For nearly two decades, Frank Jahn served as the Public Education Specialist at the Alameda County Water District (ACWD), which serves the cities of Fremont, Newark and Union City. During his tenure, he created revolutionary hands-on water saving programs that influenced hundreds of thousands of residents. Each year he provided direct program content to 20,000-25,000 students through assemblies and classroom programs. Students took home ideas and items to encourage conservation, including shower timers and toilet testing kits, reaching many additional family members. Under his leadership, the ACWD received the Claire A. Hill Award for its "Stop that Running Toilet" school outreach program, which is estimated to have saved 13 million gallons of water per year. He spearheaded an outreach program about drought tolerant plants that provided students with seeds of plants native to the service area. Frank also coordinated a very popular Water Conservation Poster and Slogan Contest for local schools that often garnered more than 2,000 entries per year. Winning entries were featured in a calendar distributed to every teacher in the ACWD service area. Having retired last year, Frank also will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

03/26/2017

The award winner in the category of Greenscape Management is Stanford University’s Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE), which provides housing for more than 13,000 students and a dining program that serves more than 18,000 meals per day, overhauled their entire irrigation system, encompassing 57 acres of landscape in 2015. This million-dollar project included upgrading 90 irrigation controllers, implementing weather-based models, installing 70 flow sensors and master valves and replacing more than 20,000 sprinkler heads and nozzles with the latest in efficient technology. The weather-based controllers allow irrigation schedules to be automatically adjusted based on the weather, including automatically shutting off in response to rain. Central control allows the controllers to be managed remotely, saving staff time and improving response time to issues. Flow sensors significantly cut down leak times as stations are automatically shut off if they exceed expected flow rates due to breaks or leaks. R&DE also partnered with Stanford Utilities to convert multiple irrigation sites that previously used Hetch Hetchy water to lake water, reserving the high quality domestic water for potable uses and sensitive research. As a result of this project, R&DE reduced irrigation water use by 44%, saving nearly 32 million gallons of water per year.
Stanford University R&DE Student Housing