North Lanarkshire Leisure stems water waste with smart meters
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Monitoring consumption helps swimming pool operator stop "pouring money down the drain"
Electricity is not the only utility that has both a budgetary and environmental impact. As well as being a vital resource that is becoming scarcer in many parts of the world, for certain businesses water represents a significant cost.
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North Lanarkshire Leisure, which operates leisure centres containing swimming pools, is one of those businesses. Introducing smart water meters – which provide daily updates on water consumption and usage patterns – helped the company reduce the water usage at its various facilities by more than 10%, saving £150,000.
Within weeks the meters had helped the management to identify a hot water pipe that was discharging straight into a drain – wasting thousands of litres of water each day and driving up energy costs.
“We were literally pouring money down the drain, because of leaks and poor water management,” explains Neil Ross, operations manager at the company. “Installing the water meters is part of a wider energy management strategy, which provides us with information that we just wouldn’t have had access to before.”
