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

30/04/2018

– 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…

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

20/03/2018

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First Business Water, Sustainability, Water Efficiency

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…

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

10/01/2018

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Sustainability, Water Efficiency

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…

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

03/01/2018

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Water Efficiency

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…