These days, with global water shortages in various regions and a worldwide water shortage looming in the very near future, it is incumbent on all corporations to have a water efficiency department with a team that has the mandate to investigate where water is used and where it is abused in the company and to come up with water efficiency projects.

It is vital that every single company, whether a small company employing 10 individuals or a large corporation with thousands of employees, get into the water-efficiency business and save water wherever they can.

Tips for Corporate Water Efficiency

As the old saying goes, “it takes money to make money” and so it also takes money to save money – and water!

A critical building-block for developing corporate water strategy is understanding where your company uses water:

  • Bill-Paying Software: The best way to track water-use is to invest in bill paying software that will summarise your utility data into easy-to-pull reports that will make it easier for your team to calculate usage across a range of facilities billed by different water providers. Trying to do this manually will lead to a data analysis nightmare and a huge waste of time and resources.
  • Water-Use Intensities: Calculating water-use intensities by a building’s square footage or by the number of employees in an administrative building will help to prioritise facilities for water savings projects in a manner similar to that used to prioritise energy efficiency projects.
  • Leverage Benchmarking Resources: There are various resources on the internet that you can use to compare your water usage to that of similar businesses such as the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, and the EPA’s WaterSense program’s commercial web page, and the Green Grid’s Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) metric.
  • Get loads of Buy-In: Water efficiency projects will require insights, data, and buy-in from multiple players, so it is vital that you get all departments in your business, your suppliers, as well as any other players involved to get pilot water efficiency projects off of the ground.

Implementing these practices will reduce municipal water, sewer and energy bills; make a noticeable impact on the company’s bottom line, and best of all, save billions of litres of water annually.

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