Sustainable Campus

Water

Water

Water is essential to life. It plays a part in almost all of our daily activities.

How are we doing?

We measure all of our water consumption from both our residential and non-residential estate annually to see how we are performing.

Consumption has dropped 40% in our residences and 14% in non-residential buildings between 2012 and 2022. Water use per staff/ student has also dropped steadily (excluding 2020/21, when the Covid-19 pandemic caused water usage anomalies), reducing by 45% as the University population has grown!

You can find out what you can do to help reduce water across campus, as well as what we as a University are doing in the sections below.

Find drinking water

You can find mapped drinking water points at the Campus Map on the student webpages.