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From the mountains to the taps

Water takes quite a journey to reach UBC’s Vancouver campus

by MULLINS A, KWOK Y, PENFOLD A, FREEK C
From the mountains to the taps
Published in April 2020 - Page 23

Although the University of British Columbia (UBC) isn’t a municipality, in many ways it operates like one, maintaining a vast infrastructure and supplying its own services, including water, waste management, energy generation and distribution, and infrastructure development. Sourcing and maintaining its water supply is an intricate and intensive process overseen by diverse staff members from UBC’s Finance and Operations team. Together they work to ensure the university has a clean, safe, and sustainable supply of

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