Case Study Water conservation 5% a year for 5years
Year 1: train personnel to turn off water when not required. Address leaking taps Year 2: audit water flow with temporary submeters and identify and rectify losses due to leaks Year 3: identify uses for water. If used for cooling assess the possibility for re-circulation. Initiate programme for re-circulation. Year 4: Continue programme of fitting recirculation measures Year 5: fit waterless urinals or explore secondary uses of reasonably clean water such as gardening and golf courses
	As we shall see in subsequent modules the formal Environmental Management Systems ISO4001 and EMAS demand that companies show continual improvement. This means that annual targets will be set reducing the total consumption of water, or for the quantity of water used per unit consumption by 5% each year and this may go on for five years. The early years' targets can probably be achieved with good housekeeping and only in later years will it be necessary to invest in water conserving measures
In a relatively wet country like Britain it may seem strange to be worried about water consumption, but the supply of water and the treatment of effluent are major environmental problems. All water supplied to domestic and commercial properties is treated to make it potable. Almost every human activity has an environmental cost and water collection and purification is no exception. The quality of drinking water from our taps is influenced by river water quality and the quality of water returned from the network and partly by the technologies employed at the treatment plants. Water is collected over large catchment areas and imagine, in an extreme situation, that Britain is highly populated that everywhere is city. There would no area of land to collect the rainfall to provide the water supply.
Task 5: Write down five environmental indicators which could be applied to your own company, product or industry.