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In your business
- Business water saver grant
- Case studies and newsletters
- Conserving water
- Councils
- Every drop counts (EDC) business program
- Fact sheets and best practice guidelines
- Hotels
- Manufacturers
- Office and shopping complexes
- Quick tips
- Reusing and recycling water
- Save water and money
- Staff awareness
Best practice guidelines
- Introduction (PDF - 1.62MB)
- Understanding your water use (PDF - 5.94MB)
- Technical water saving information (PDF - 3.97MB)
- Alternative water sources (PDF - 2.54MB)
- Water saving checklist (PDF - 1.4MB)
- set benchmarks for water use in commercial buildings and shopping centres
- explain how to implement water conservation projects
- provide advice on alternative water sources
- contain a practical Water Saving Checklist to identify water saving opportunities.
Sydney Water's best practice guidelines for water conservation in commercial office buildings and shopping centres won the Water Award in this years Green Globe Awards. To find out more see our media release.
The guidelines were prepared as part of Sydney Water’s Stockholm Industry Water Award winning Every Drop Counts (EDC) Business Program. The guidelines:
Find out more about the EDC Business Program.
Each day, businesses across Sydney use nearly 450 million litres of water. This amount is almost one-third of Sydney's total water use.
Compare how much water your business sector uses to other industry sectors
Sydney Water's Every Drop Counts Business Program gives businesses in industrial, commercial and public sectors a competitive advantage, by helping them get the most out of the water they purchase. Our business partners agree - being smart with water makes good business sense.
