The world is in trouble with its water supply due to climate change and other problems, and it behoves each one of us to figure out an easy way to conserve water at work.
Most of us are already saving as much water as we can at home by recycling grey water, ensuring that there are no leaks, using our washing machines and dishwashers efficiently, maintaining pipes and plumbing systems, watering the garden when it is cooler, limiting hosepipe use, showering instead of bathing, and more, but what does one do to conserve water at work?
An Easy Way to Conserve Water at Work
Conserving water at work is not that difficult if one just thinks about it and applies some common sense and logic.
Tips to Conserve Water at Work:
- Conduct a waste audit, which will include water wastage and apply solutions where necessary
- Limit your use of water; this is great for saving trees, and the production of paper uses a lot of water
- Eliminate automatic flushing devices in toilet areas
- Get a plumber to inspect your plumbing and install flow restrictors and pressure reducers and to restrict the wasteful use of water
- Fix leaking taps
- When replacing old equipment, make sure that it is with equipment that is water-efficient
One of my pet hates in spaces that are used by many people is the amount of taps that are not closed or not closed properly after someone has washed their hands or had a drink of water; this waster thousands of litres of water daily.
An easy way to conserve water at work that will impress your staff and impact double on your bottom line because it will also save you money on your water bill, and on staff outages due to illness, is to invest in an office water cooler.
Just think about it; an office water cooler that is plugged directly into your mains will provide chilled, ambient, or hot water on tap, without the need for anyone to open a tap that is not monitored and leave it to leak out precious water.
The Executive POU (point of use) Water Cooler by Living-Water offers cold, ambient or hot water; a high dispense point to avoid spillage from bending down; a reservoir for any stray drips; and a system that reduces the chance of microbiological contamination by 98%.
If you are looking for something smaller that packs a punch, Living-Water’s Undercounter Water Cooler comes in 30 l/h and a 45 l/h models; offers ambient, chilled, sparkling and hot drink options; and there is an optional filter available.
