By: Kelsey Martin, Severn Trent
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Do you might have a dripping faucet, leaky lavatory or bathe that’s sprung a leak? What folks might not realise is that these little leaks could possibly be pushing up the price of your water invoice!
If you happen to’re a enterprise proprietor and also you obtain Severn Trent water by way of your retailer, there are a selection of free instruments on supply that may allow you to to seek out and repair any water leaks you might have in your premises. Learn on to learn how to how utilizing our Vyn platform or getting a Water Effectivity Test can just remember to’re solely paying for the water you employ, and also you’re not letting cash go down the drain!
Following the marginally soggy summer time that we had this 12 months, it’s straightforward to see why folks have a tendency to consider Britain as being a rustic that will get greater than its justifiable share of rain. However based on the Met Workplace, we see barely much less rainfall than Paris and about half that of New York.
With a rising inhabitants – predicted to be greater than 2 million extra folks by 2030 – and ongoing pressures from local weather change bringing extra storms and blistering warmth, water is more and more being seen as a valuable useful resource.
In reality, the federal government has estimated that we’ll want a further 4 billion litres of water every single day by 2050 and to hit targets and guarantee that there’s sufficient water out there for everybody who wants it, water corporations are being requested to encourage folks to deliver down the common day by day use from 140 litres per individual per day, to 110 litres per individual per day.
A great deal of sectors already have behind this goal, from builders guaranteeing new places of work and business properties are water environment friendly, to white items producers offering water effectivity scores on their merchandise.
Companies are additionally more and more turning to merchandise like low-flow bathe heads and are contemplating the ways in which they use water, making small modifications like upgrading loos at their enterprise by putting in push faucets and sensored urinals. All of it provides up!
However what folks might not realise is simply how a lot these leaking faucets, bathrooms and showers could possibly be costing them on their water invoice. At Severn Trent we wish to ensure that we’re supporting enterprise prospects in eliminating wasted water and alongside our dedication to help behaviour change, we additionally wish to assist them deal with leaks.
Clients can entry a variety of free-of-charge providers that we provide. This consists of Water Effectivity Checks – the place one among our skilled engineers visits a enterprise to examine for primary leaks, chat by way of methods during which they may use water extra effectively, and depart them with some free merchandise and recommendation – and thru our Vyn platform.
The straightforward to make use of software allows you to take a video of a suspected leak in your smartphone which could be uploaded straight to one among our crew.
They’ll assessment the footage and in the event that they suppose you may need one thing that we may also help with, we’ll be in contact inside 5 working days about subsequent steps. If it’s a repair that we may also help with, we’ll ship out an engineer to have a look and make a restore there after which if we will, all free-of-charge.
That is notably helpful for companies like inns, eating places and bars which have a better variety of fittings which may be struggling a sneaky leak. Simply suppose {that a} dripping faucet could possibly be placing an additional £90 a 12 months on the common water invoice…after which take into account what number of faucets you’ve received in your premises!
As most of our enterprise prospects are metered, you’re paying for what you employ slightly than a flat price, so all of those little drips and drops can quickly add up over the course of six month or a 12 months.
This isn’t simply one thing that we’re asking of our prospects although and we all know {that a} huge step on this journey is addressing leakage from our community. For this reason we’ve just lately dedicated to spend £12.9 billion from 2025-2030, with a big a part of this funding to upgrading over 1,850km of water pipes – the identical quantity that would stretch from John O’Groats to Lands Finish twice. It will assist to chop leakage from our community by 16% and guaranteeing an additional 100 million litres extra each single day will get to the place it’s wanted most.
Go to stwater.co.uk and seek for Supporting Native Companies to seek out out extra and hyperlink by way of to the Vyn app.
