Water Efficiency

First Business Water’s School Water Efficiency guide

We have created a new water efficiency guide especially for schools, check it out below! or feel free to download the PDF file. Water is a precious natural resource and finite. Less than 3% of the earth’s water is freshwater and only 0.3% is readily accessible. It is essential to understand the amount of water consumed in your workplace. Whether it is a school, business or public sector organisation, a planned and focused reduction plan cannot be created without accurate…

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WaterDeck “access water data anytime anywhere” – First Business Water

– An innovative web-based platform designed to support businesses and charitable organisations to easily understand and track their water consumption as well as benchmark water usage performance –  On May 1st 2018, First Business Water is officially launching its innovative online platform, WaterDeck. Designed to support businesses to easily monitor and clearly understand how much water is being used across their site(s) in a simple and visual way. The development of WaterDeck is driven from our desire to encourage and…

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First Business Water’s guide to water efficiency in your workplace

To celebrate Water Saving Week, we have created a “First Business Water’s guide to water efficiency in your workplace”. Click here to download the PDF file. Water is a precious natural resource and finite. Less than 3% of the earth’s water is fresh water and only 0.3% is readily accessible. The consumption of available freshwater has to be shared between nature, agriculture, business and households. In the UK, water companies supply millions of litres a day but must be careful to…

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How much water do our everyday devices use?

Have you ever wondered how much water devices consume in your business premise or household? Based on the figures from Discover Water, the average in the UK is 141 litres per person per day. This amount might not seem that significant, but if we compare this against one of our EU neighbours, Germany, who use only 121 litres per person per day! – that is circa 15% less than us. So, let’s have a look at what constitutes the make…

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Established Midlands Care Home Operator – saves time and money when switching to First Business Water

Our client is an established care home operator based in the Midlands*. With four sites and almost 100 patients, this nursing home had a large number of bills and were finding their current situation confusing and ineffective. Wanting to take advantage of the open market they wanted to consolidate all their bills and change suppliers as they were faced with a number of issues. Working as part of their team, we worked closely with their staff to gain an in-depth…

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The potential drought crisis in South East England? More innovation required

The recent UK Storm Eleanor caused 15 areas in the UK to have severe flood warnings. Even this excessive rainfall has not helped to fill up the reservoirs in the south-east of England which will be facing a drought this summer. The extremely dry weather and below average rainfall has resulted in river flows being below the standard level which directly affects the businesses and domestic households in this area. The temporary water restrictions such as hosepipe bans which we…

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Display Water Certificate (DWC) to conserve water and understand your water usage

There is a myriad of energy efficiency legislation and requirements which mandate businesses and public -sector organisations to undertake energy audits and surveys to help understand and promote energy efficiency in buildings. One of these audits is the Display Energy Certificate (“DEC”) which mandates public sector organisations (local authorities, schools, hospitals etc) to undertake an annual energy survey. The DEC provides an occupancy rating of the building (scale A to G, with A being the most efficient) by benchmarking the…

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