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Auditing Your Facility - Steps to Manage Water Efficiently

Learn how to conduct a water audit for your facility, identify water consumption patterns, and implement strategies to reduce costs and risks associated with water usage. Find useful tools and resources to help you track and manage water efficiently.

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Auditing Your Facility - Steps to Manage Water Efficiently

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  1. Auditing Your FacilityApril 28, 2015 Elkhart Environmental Center

  2. So Where do We Start? • Find Impacts • Baseline Audits

  3. Water Management Tools • EPA – Lean Water Toolkit • EPA – Water Sense at Work • GEMI Water Planner • Global Water Tool • Aqueduct • Water Risk Filter • *Links will be provided on Coalition website

  4. Why Manage Water? Northern Indiana has A BUNCH of water…. …Still helps companies 1) Uncover cost savings and operational improvements 2) Reduce water related business risk 3) Deliver value for customers and employees

  5. Audit – Walk the Facility Steps to take during audit Identify water consuming equipment, high use areas and meter locations; Note – water losses (evaporative and incorporated into product), excessive water pressure and leaks; Observe clean-ups and changeovers; Quantify flow rates and usage; Not water quality; and Determine quality needs for each process and wastewater discharged.

  6. Audit – Document

  7. Water Management Examples Heating Ground Water 212 oF Process Boiler Simple Cost Breakdown (100% Efficient) (212 – 55) x 25 x 1.163 / 1000 = 4.56 KWh Electric 4.56 KWh x 9.63 cents/kWh = $26 per hour Gas 4.56 KWh x 2 cents/kWh = $5.5 per hour 55 oF

  8. Water Management Examples Two Parallel Processes 150 Gallons 100 Gallons Inefficiencies? 120 Gallons 100 Gallons Inefficiencies?

  9. Metrics Check Plan Do Act • Facility Wide Metrics • Volume/Wt. used each month • Volume/Wt. of wastewater/waste • Volume/Wt. of specific end uses • Metrics Normalized • Volume/Wt. used per products • Volume/Wt. discharged/disposed per product Metrics Used Throughout

  10. Evaluation Can be weighted

  11. Evaluating Opportunities High Impact Desirability Low Low High Difficulty

  12. Other Tools Corporate Level: GEMI Global Water Tool Local Level: GEMI Local Water Tool

  13. Materials Exchange Program

  14. Potential Landscape Company A Company B Waste = Raw Material

  15. Need a Connection Point Do you have useable waste?

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