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Water tools to help your business reduce water

Before you can start minimising the amount of water your business consumes, you need to understand where water is being used within the business. The activities in which water is consumed vary from company to company.

Envirowise offers a package of four free tools to help you understand your current consumption levels in comparison with other businesses in your sector and many publications to guide you through the process.

There are three key steps:

Diagram: monitor usage, benchmark comparison, reduce usage

Use the tools listed below to progress through these steps.


Helps you easily to record and track where water is being used in your company, and analyse your findings.

Enables you to compare your water consumption with other businesses in your sector.

Provides you with practical advice, materials and publications to help you make changes to how your business uses water.

Calculates the charges applied to industry for the conveyance and treatment of their effluents discharged to sewer.

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