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Office Buildings and Shopping Centres

Best practice guidelines

    Best practice guidelines (PDF 102kb) for water conservation in commercial office buildings and shopping centres were released today.

    The guidelines were prepared as part of Sydney Water’s Stockholm Industry Water Award winning Every Drop Counts (EDC) Business Program. The guidelines:

  • 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.


    • Find out more about the EDC Business Program.

In partnership with your business, Sydney Water offers a formalised water saving process to help you save water, money and the environment.

These fact sheets will help you save water in specific areas of your business.

In addition, best practice guidelines for cooling towers in commercial buildings (PDF 1.2mb) are available for your reference.

Find out how AMP Henderson are saving $95,000 a year at their Jessie Street Centre, Parramatta by working with Sydney Water's every drop counts program.