Plumbing codes are enacted to protect the public's
health and safety. The growing water supply-demand
crisis in the United States and across the globe now
requires that plumbing codes not impede and even
support water efficiency standards, regulations, and
community conservation efforts. Of interest to any
water utility is the fact that some plumbing codes conflict
with water efficiency, and these codes are impeding
their ability to implement demand management.
Utility managers have the ability to enact plumbing
code changes in their service territory. Such plumbing
codes must be amended at the local level because the
amendment process by the model code agencies will
not affect local plumbing codes until after 2011. Water
utilities need to take action with local code enforcement
jurisdictions to ensure that the plumbing codes
do not conflict with the growing demand for water
conservation.
| Edition : | Vol. 100 - No. 5 |
| File Size : | 1
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| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 3 |
| Published : | 05/01/2008 |
