WaterSense is a partnership program by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It seeks to protect the future of our nation’s water supply by offering people a simple way to use less water with water-efficient products, new homes, and services.

Products with the WaterSense labels:

• Perform as well or better than their less efficient counterparts.
• Are 20% more water efficient than average products in that category.
• Realize water savings on a national level.
• Provide measurable water savings results.
• Achieve water efficiency through several technology options.
• Are effectively differentiated by the WaterSense label.
• Obtain independent, third-party certification.

For companies to use the label, they must sign a WaterSense partnership agreement. The partnership agreement defines the roles and responsibilities of EPA and the partnering organization, as well as proper use of the label on products, on packaging, and in marketing and other promotional materials.

The WaterSense label can be found on products including bathroom sink faucets, showerheads, toilets, urinals, and weather-based irrigation controllers. Let’s look at some water saving results from WaterSense labeled products.

• Using WaterSense labeled faucets or faucet accessories could reduce a household’s faucet water use by more than 500 gallons annually—that’s enough water to do 14 loads of laundry.
• WaterSense labeled faucets and faucet accessories can reduce excessive flow volumes by more than 30 percent without sacrificing performance.
• If one in every 10 homes in the United States were to install WaterSense labeled faucets or faucet accessories in their bathrooms, it could save 6 billion gallons of water, and more than $50 million in the energy costs to supply, heat, and treat that water.
• If all inefficient toilets in U.S. homes were converted to WaterSense labeled models, we could save more than 640 billion gallons of water per year—the equivalent to 15 days of flow over Niagara Falls.
• If homeowners with irrigation systems use a certified irrigation professional to perform regular maintenance, they can reduce irrigation water use by 15 percent or nearly 8,800 gallons of water annually. That’s the equal to the amount of water used to take 500 showers.

For more information about WaterSense, please visit: https://www3.epa.gov/watersense/index.html

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