{"id":104097,"date":"2015-08-27T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=104097"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:06:11","slug":"uconn-issues-water-supply-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/08\/uconn-issues-water-supply-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Issues Water Supply Advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because seasonally dry conditions have reduced area stream flows, University officials are enlisting cooperation in conserving water until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s water supply remains adequate to meet current and forecasted system demands, as well as any emergency needs such as firefighting.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in UConn\u2019s Water Supply Plan, the University is committed to operating an environmentally sustainable water supply system. Given current stream-flow conditions and rainfall forecast, officials are asking students, faculty, staff, and off-campus municipal, commercial, and residential users to be conscientious about their daily water use, and to take voluntary steps to conserve water by doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking shorter showers;<\/li>\n<li>Running dishwashers and clothes washing machines with full loads;<\/li>\n<li>Shutting off water while washing dishes, shaving, brushing teeth, and lathering up to wash hands, rather than running the water continuously;<\/li>\n<li>Avoiding washing vehicles or power-washing homes and other buildings;<\/li>\n<li>Not using water to clean sidewalks, driveways, and roads;<\/li>\n<li>Reducing as far as possible the watering of lawns, recreational and athletic fields, gardens, or other landscaped areas (if watering is essential, late-evening hours are best);<\/li>\n<li>Not using public water to fill residential swimming pools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University is actively monitoring conditions, and will continue to provide updates as conditions change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of current dry conditions, the University is asking users to take voluntary measures to save water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":62531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-104097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 07:17:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104103,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104097\/revisions\/104103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/62531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104097"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=104097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=104097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}