{"id":97572,"date":"2014-10-21T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=97572"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:17:41","slug":"mandatory-water-conservation-lifted-voluntary-steps-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/10\/mandatory-water-conservation-lifted-voluntary-steps-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Water Conservation Lifted, Voluntary Steps Urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University is lifting the Stage II Water Supply Watch that was issued when area stream-flows were reduced by seasonally dry conditions. The recent rainfall has partially restored stream-flow in the rivers near UConn\u2019s well-fields.<\/p>\n<p>However, stream-flows have not fully recovered to what is expected at this time of year, and the campus remains in a Stage IB Water Supply Advisory, meaning that voluntary water conservation measures are still in effect.<\/p>\n<p>The University expects to continue in a period of water conservation until it is confident that stream-flows can be sustained.<\/p>\n<p>University officials are asking students, faculty, staff, and off-campus municipal, commercial, and residential users to be conscious of their daily water use, and to continue to conserve water voluntarily in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take short showers. Turn off the water flow while soaping or shampooing.<\/li>\n<li>Use the appropriate water level or load size selection on the washing machine.<\/li>\n<li>Use water only as needed when washing dishes, shaving, and brushing teeth. Don\u2019t let the faucet run unnecessarily.<\/li>\n<li>Run dishwashers only when completely full.<\/li>\n<li>Public water should not be used to wash building exteriors, driveways, sidewalks, or vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Reconsider pouring water down the drain when there may be another use for it \u2013 such as watering a plant or garden.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately report any leaky fixtures in UConn buildings to Facilities Operations: 860-486-3113.<\/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>Recent rainfall has partly restored stream-flow, but University officials encourage water users to continue voluntary conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[124],"class_list":["post-97572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 18:49:00","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\/97572","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97578,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97572\/revisions\/97578"}],"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=97572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97572"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=97572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=97572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}