(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (from left) Chris Weyandt, Deirdre Carter, and John Elliott helped implement an online monitoring system for water cooling towers like this one at Bldg. 71. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) With California in an extreme drought, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) started a number of water conservation efforts two years ago. But when Chief Sustainability Officer John Elliott started seeing drops in water usage that were much larger than what could be attributed to the conservation projects, he realized there was something more at play. 'Individual behavior makes a big difference,' said Elliott. 'Of the roughly 10-million...
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