WATER HYGIENE & SAFETY
investigated as soon as they occur. One of the most effective ways of
reducing water use is to identify and stop leaks. Watersafe estimates the cost of a single leaking toilet to be between £300 and £6,000 per year.9
Just one leaking
toilet can waste between 215 and 400 litres of what would otherwise be clean drinking water each day. Leaking toilets are notoriously hard to spot, meaning that leaks can continue undetected for months or years, wasting huge amounts of water, and ultimately impacting upon an organisation’s bottom line, as all that wasted water needs to be paid for. Smart detectors such as the Aguardio
Ecoprod’s range of sensor taps also includes miscea taps, which can dispense both water and liquid hand hygiene products from the same unit, ‘completely touch-free’.
for every tap installed in the system can be set via a mobile device or PC.
Advanced wireless management The CONTI+ Service App also offers advanced, wireless management of CONTI+ electronic fittings on site. Each fitting can be managed remotely through the app, including scheduling programme sanitary rinses, checking and setting water running times, optimising sensor ranges, checking usage data of each fitting, and much more. This enables Facilities managers and engineers to maintain each fitting more effectively, ensuring that hygiene is not compromised. Waterless urinals, meanwhile, can save
100,000 litres of water per urinal per year. Switching to waterless urinals saves a huge amount of water compared with traditional flushing urinals. At Ecoprod we have installed many thousands of URIMAT waterless urinals across many different types of organisations. Typically, each URIMAT urinal saves up to 100,000 litres of water per year. As a guide, this equates to between £250 and £600 per urinal per year, just in water savings alone (depending on the regional cost of water).
URIMAT urinals are designed to be much easier and quicker to clean than traditional urinals, thus offering greater hygiene levels. The urinal bowl is made of a super-smooth polycarbonate or ceramic material which deposits cannot stick to, and is specially moulded, with no pipes, awkward corners, or sharp edges to clean, or in which bacteria can become established. Cleaners need only spray the inside of the bowl with MB Active Cleaner, a microbiological cleaner, which then breaks the urine down organically.
There is no need for scrubbing and scouring, so cleaning time is reduced, and effectiveness increased.
Smart water temperature monitoring The HSE requires that hot water be stored at temperatures above 60 °C, and cold water at temperatures below 20 °C, to reduce the risk of Legionella.8 Manual monitoring of this can be time- consuming, as well as subject to error. Automated temperature monitoring systems such as those provided by Aguardio can provide constant recording of hot and cold water temperatures at each point of use. An alert can be sent out if these parameters are breached so that problems can be identified and
temperature monitor mentioned above can also be used very effectively for leak detection. The monitor is clamped to the toilet inlet, and continuously monitors the temperature of water flowing through the pipe. A significant change in temperature – for example caused by cold water running continuously through a pipe, can indicate a leak, and thus triggers an automatic alert, enabling the identification of leaks that could easily be otherwise missed by staff.
Rainwater harvesting and sustainable drainage solutions A key part of any water management strategy is not only reducing water usage and wastage, but also identifying opportunities to reuse water whenever possible. Indeed, since 2015 all new developments are legally required to install sustainable drainage solutions, for example by harvesting rainfall and reusing it sustainably. In hospitals, rainwater harvesting is commonly used for irrigation and watering of gardens, and several hospitals in the UK have won awards for gardens and courtyards designed in this
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