Renewable resources: water
One of the key considerations in relation to sustainability is that important and scarce resource – water. Hydropower, as a renewable source of energy, first came to Ireland with the building of the Shannon Scheme at Ardnacrusha, Co Clare, in 1929.
Below is a series of sketches created during the building of the hydroelectric dam at Ardnacrusha, 1925–1929. UL has also repurposed an old turbine from the Ardnacrusha power station as a water fountain in the courtyard outside the Bernal Science and Engineering building.
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There are four water fountains in UL Library where you can fill up your water bottle for free. A count taken in February 2023 showed that library users had refilled 1,333,962 bottles since the installation of the fountains in October 2018 – let us raise that figure to 2million. By reusing a water bottle, we can prevent plastic waste through the reduction in single use bottles.
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