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Water Delivery Facilities: <br />The Missouri American Water central plant is responsible for transporting the water supply to <br />the citizens of University City. GHG emissions resulting from these water delivery facilities are <br />a product of the electricity used to pump water from the central plant to the University City <br />community. Bob Fuerman, Production Director of Missouri American Water, provided the <br />central plant’s total electricity usage and population served for the 2005 calendar year. This data <br />was then converted into a total value specific to the University City community. In 2005, the <br />water delivery facilities serving University City emitted approximately 2,240 metric tons of <br />COe. Similar to the water treatment facilities, emissions resulting from the electricity used to <br />2 <br />deliver water supply are categorized as an “information item” and as such are not included in the <br />community’s total emissions value. <br /> <br /> <br />Table 16: “Other” Community GHG Emissions by Sector, 2005 <br />GHG Emissions Percentage of <br />“Other” Emissions <br />(metric tons of Total Community <br />Sectors <br />COe) Emissions (%) <br />2 <br />Wastewater <br />4,213 0.08 <br />Facilities <br />Water Delivery <br />2,240 0.04 <br />Facilities <br /> <br />Per Capita Emissions <br />Per capita emissions can be a useful metric for measuring progress in reducing greenhouse gases <br />and for comparing one community’s emissions with neighboring cities and against regional and <br />national averages. Currently it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons between cities <br />because of variation in the scope of inventories conducted, but this will be possible in the near <br />future when a universal reporting standard is completed and adopted through a process driven by <br />iii <br />ICLEI. <br />xiv <br />Dividing the 2005 total community GHG emissions by population yields a result of <br />xv <br />approximately 15.64 metric tons COe per capita per year. It is important to reiterate that the <br />2 <br />per capita emissions number for University City is not directly comparable to every per capita <br />number produced by other emissions studies because of differences in emission inventory <br />methods. As a general comparison, the World Bank estimated the 2005 U.S. per capita COe <br />2 <br />xvi <br />emissions at approximately 19.7 metric tons per capita. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />2010-2011 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, City of University City, MO 23 <br /> <br /> <br />