Sloan, Chicago water board launch water conservation pilot program
Franklin Park, Ill.-based Sloan Valve Co. and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago launched a water conservation pilot program that could save 585,000 gallons of water each year, the two entities announced.
Sloan has donated 15 hybrid urinals for use in MWRD’s main downtown Chicago offices. The units clean the lines behind the trap with a 1-gal. burst of water every 72 hours, saving 39,000 gal. per year. The MWRD hopes the success of the program will encourage more hybrid urinal use in business and government facilities throughout Cook County (the county that encompasses Chicago). The MWRD notes 1.4 billion gal. of water is treated throughout Chicago’s seven water-reclamation treatment plants.