Cal Poly receives its water from the Whale Rock Reservoir in Cayucos. The recent rains over winter filled the reservoir to its max and it spilled for the first time […]
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Broken pipe causes water outage for Cal Poly residence halls, dining facility
Cal Poly students in six residence halls were left without water on Saturday due to an emergency water outage. The outage left the yak?it?ut?u, Sierra Madre, Yosemite, Tenaya, Muir and […]
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Limited water and becoming the ‘mask police’: RAs in yakʔitʸutʸu frustrated with housing officials
For three weeks, about 670 student residents in the yakʔitʸutʸu dorms had limited access to filtered water at night, so some of them resorted to drinking sink and shower water.
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Engineering for people: Engineers Without Borders and the people of Pa Kloi
The team plans to return to Thailand in December 2018.
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Alumni create greywater recycling device to combat California’s drought
Dustin Kash and Chris O’Day created a device to reduce water consumption.
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Cal Poly Zeros in on Waste
Currently, people on campus have a habit of throwing their items straight into the landfill, sustainability coordinator Kylee Singh said.
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Israel water talk brings SLO leaders to Cal Poly
Every member in attendance was given a copy of speaker Seth Siegel’s book, “Let There Be Water.”
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Cal Poly cuts water usage as part of Drought Response Plan
The school is letting 28 percent of its turf — a proposed 13.6 acres in total — go brown in response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s new demands that campuses cut their water use by one-fourth.
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United Nations University summit to study drought
It’s easy to stay in Cal Poly’s isolated bubble of green lawns and flowering plants. It’s easy to forget we’re in a drought.
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California drought scorches Learn By Doing
While the drought has prevented students from gaining practical experience, it hasn’t stopped students from wanting to learn by doing.
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Water flow restrictions come to campus bathrooms
Modifications have been made to resident hall and public restrooms on campus, as well as resident hall shower heads.