Best practice guidelines

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Sydney Water has prepared a number of best practice guidelines for water use. They are a practical resource to help businesses improve water efficiency. You can either customise a best practice guideline document for your business using our customised water management publication tool (currently available for clubs, commercial office buildings and shopping centres only) or refer to one of our prepared best practice guidelines for specific sectors:

• Aquatic leisure centres (PDF - 5702KB) ¹
• Clubs (PDF - 11378KB) or produce a customised water management publication for your club
• Commercial office buildings and shopping centres:
  • 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)
• Cooling towers for commercial buildings (PDF - 1.19MB)
• Hotel operations (PDF - 801KB)
• Open space turf management (PDF - 6.25MB)

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¹ Venues using pool covers on their pool during opening hours need to manage the safety risk to patrons as per the RLSSA Guidelines for Safe Pool Operation.