LSE calculates big savings
June 05th 2006 When the London School of Economics first saw Water Solutions’ product it was interested but a little sceptical. Now having trialled it they are enthusiastic and more than that they are thousands of pounds per year better off.
On reflection of the potential benefits of Water Solutions’ product we decided to trial the system in our student bar and restaurant. This area experiences extremely high usage and unfortunately is also subject to some abuse by its users. Trialling in this area we felt would provide the system with a rigorous test and one, which would certainly identify any potential weaknesses.
As the trial period progressed it soon became apparent that our previously held concerns based on our use of other water free urinal systems were unfounded. Indeed we didn’t experience any problems during the trial period other than the occasional knock on my door to tell me about the nice smell that the new toilets emitted.
We calculated that with our annual water expenditure being around £65 000 that we could save in excess of £16 000 based on a saving on water of around 20%. Such a saving would alone have been enough to tempt us to employ the system throughout our organisation, but the trial had also identified to us other benefits.
A water free urinal requires no flush control and consequently instantly further savings are made. With no PIR breakdown or replacement costs for cistermisers or solenoid valves, we projected further savings based on a figure of £20-£30 per urinal of around £3000 per year.
The environmental impact of excessive water usage was also a primary concern to an organisation such as ours and reduction in usage was thus a further benefit offered by the implementation of Water Solutions system. More articles from Water Solutions (GB) Ltd: | 
