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WaterSense Home Version 2.0 Specification Released
On April 18, 2019, EPA released the WaterSense Draft Specification for Homes, Version 2.0 which aims to further promote residential water efficiency and help enable market transformation in home construction. The specification is applicable to single-family homes and multifamily buildings. EPA will require homes that earn the WaterSense label to be at least 30 percent more water-efficient than a comparable home of typical new construction. To confirm that homes meet this efficiency threshold, EPA will require the homes to be certified under a Home Certification Organization’s (HCO’s) WaterSense Approved Certification Method (WACM).
Review the documents below to learn more about the draft specification and the supporting program.
- WaterSense Draft Specification for Homes Supporting Statement (16 pp, 497 K, About PDF)
- WaterSense Draft Specification for Homes, Version 2.0 (4 pp, 234 K, About PDF)
- WaterSense Draft Home Certification System, Version 2.0 (30 pp, 645 K, About PDF)
- WaterSense Draft Technical Evaluation Process for Approving Home Certification Methods (38 pp, 730 K, About PDF)
EPA also developed a factsheet(2 pp, 424 K, About PDF) that summarizes its proposed changes to the WaterSense labeled homes program.
Interested parties are invited to provide written comments on WaterSense’s draft specification, certification system, and technical evaluation process. Please send any comments or suggestions to watersense-programs@erg.com. Comments must be submitted by June 3, 2019. |
