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Congratulations!
Sydney Water takes out Green Globe award 2008
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.
Best practice guidelines
Best practice guidelines for water conservation in commercial office buildings and shopping centres have been published to assist owners and managers to save water and money.
Waterwise businesses recognised
For more information about this year's EDC Business award winners see our media release.
Sydney Water wins the 2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award
Sydney Water wins the 2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award in recognition of its work with business, industry and government to reduce water usage and ensure the long-term sustainability of Sydney's water supply.
See the
2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award (PDF - 88KB)
.
Sydney Water is 2006 Banksia Eco Innovation Award Winner
Sydney Water's Waterless Wok Stove project (PDF - 593KB)
has taken out the Banksia Eco Innovation Award. This innovation will save around 5,000 litres of water a day per stove.
The Banksia awards recognise businesses and individuals that a make positive difference to our environment.
For more information visit www.banksiafdn.com.
Sydney Water offers a formalised water saving process for business customers who spend more than $70,000 per year on water and related charges.
This amount equates to more than 100 kilo litres of water per day. Our Every Drop Counts Business Program process incorporates water management into your day to day business operations, as well as at a strategic level. This Program compliments the NSW Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability (DEUS) Water Savings Action Plan (PDF - 171KB) for high water users and local councils under Sydney's Metropolitan Water Plan.
Joint commitment
To participate in the Every Drop Counts Business Program, you will need to enter into a voluntary business arrangement with Sydney Water. This arrangement demonstrates your business's commitment to improving water management practices and implementing water saving measures, provided they meet agreed investment criteria.
Diagnostic to save water
We will help your business use a diagnostic process (PDF - 258KB) that allows you to evaluate your performance in water resource management.
The diagnostic process (PDF - 258KB) is based on a proven methodology that examines 10 key areas of an effective water management system. During the process, your management team is asked a series of questions relating to each of the key areas. A report is then prepared highlighting what your business can do to save water. These include:
- identifying someone who will be responsible for water management within your business
- carrying out a water audit to determine where water is used within your business and to identify key performance indicators and water reduction targets
- incorporating water efficiency and reduction targets into your environmental policy
- regularly monitoring and analysing your water use to identify trends or abnormal usage, such as leakage from your system.
Improvement plan
The diagnostic process helps you develop a plan for saving water. The plan identifies priorities that need attention and the most effective order in which to implement them.
Based on your specific business objectives and resources, Sydney Water will work with you to identify which items you should implement, who will implement them and when.
Implementation
Our water conservation and recycling team can help implement your improvement plan by:
- producing a water consumption profile for your business
- providing a discount when purchasing water sub-meters
- providing co-funding for water audits, where necessary
- providing on-line monitoring of water use within your business to allow real time assessment
- providing industry best practise guidelines for benchmarking
- assisting with research and development projects
- supplying communication resources to promote water conservation to your staff.
Review performance
When items from your improvement plan have been completed, our water conservation and recycling team can help review your progress towards effective water management by:
- reviewing your current water consumption to see if a reduction has been achieved
- setting up a second diagnostic session to see what progress has been made towards incorporating water management into your other management systems.
