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UNR water recycling effort thwarted by OSHA

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An effort by the University of Nevada, Reno to recycle water used in an air conditioning system for irrigation has been thwarted by state occupational and health officials because of concerns over a pump.

University safety officials said the pump at the Joe Crowley Student Union would have allowed the campus to use 600,000 gallons of water annually to water landscape instead of sending it down the drain.

But UNR was ordered to remove the pump last week because Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials said it violated a code that prohibits any "nonessential" equipment in the room that houses the air conditioning system.

The state public works board approved the system, but OSHA won't certify the air conditioning system while the pump is in the same room.

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