Business Conservation Practices
Below are some quick opportunities for
commercial, industrial, and institutional customers to reduce water use with little or no
up-front costs or impacts on performance and customer satisfaction. The
Water Smart Technology
Program also provides financial incentives and technical assistance to upgrade operations
and equipment.
Please call 206-684-SAVE for assistance in implementing these and other water saving
practices:
1. Consider alternatives to discretionary uses of water, such as sidewalk
washing and other indoor and outdoor spray cleaning activities not related to health and
safety.
2. Eliminate daytime landscape watering. Water at night and consider
weather-based or moisture sensing controls. See our Landscape and Irrigation
Recommendations for more ideas.
3. Reduce fleet washing as much as possible, or use a water reclaim
system. Eliminate car lot washing and hosing.
4. Work with all employees to develop methods and procedures that will
reduce water use. Evaluate how employees are using water and determine, with their help,
more efficient alternatives.
5. Emphasize leak reporting and repair.
6. Incorporate efficient use of water in kitchens for food preparation,
food thawing and clean-up procedures.
7. Empower your customers to participate in water-saving practices. Allow
restaurants customers to request drinking water and allow hotel customers to request clean
towels and linens.
8. Replace inefficient equipment such as toilets, single-pass cooling
systems, water-cooled ice machines, laundry systems, medical equipment, process water and
many other systems. We will pay up to 50% of the project cost for any cost-effective
upgrade when retrofitting with water-efficient fixtures and equipment. Most completed
projects have financial paybacks of two years or less and often produce companion energy
savings. |
