CPD: Manage your water consumption
Attention to water has many parallels with energy:
● global natural resources that are under threat from over-exploitation;
● excellent cost savings through no/low cost interventions or investments;
● can be managed through a structured, systematic approach;
● can be metered and sub-metered, and techniques such as monitoring and targeting or benchmarking against industry “best practice” can be applied;
● can be recovered and re-used (energy as heat recovery, water as ‘grey water’);
● both can be generated from renewable sources (e.g. rainwater harvesting); and
● interventions in one often generate indirect savings in the other.
The prime driver for reducing water use is lower water purchase costs. Any reduction in water consumption, for the same output/commercial activity/turnover, is a saving.
