UCLA research group wins $18,000 grant to install water capture system | Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

May 25, 2016

Two students posing for a photo in front of shrubs/trees. — The Green Initiative Fund awarded a grant to UCLA students to build a campus rainwater capture system. The system could save more than one million gallons of water per year. Photo by Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin.

Students on UCLA’s Sustainability Action Research Resilience Team plan to build a 200,000-gallon capture system that could save 1.22 million gallons of water per year. The group received an $18,000 grant in early May to install the storm water capture system on the UCLA campus. Funds come from the Green Initiative Fund a program, established by the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, that works toward increasing campus sustainability.