Water efficiency around the world: reducing costs and taking responsible environmental action

There is a real need for water efficiency around the world. An increasing number of people are faced with water scarcity and the cost of water is constantly rising. Clean water is not an infinite natural resource, not even in Smartvatten’s home country of Finland, the land of a thousand lakes.

Implementing water-efficient measures can lead to substantial savings in the running costs for property management, which is directly felt in the pockets of shareholders, investors, owners and end users. Water costs are the largest individual cost of property management, when you take into account the complete sum of the costs of sewage, heating water, and water supply. A property’s water efficiency can also affect the costs of district heating, something you can learn more about here.

Water efficiency further aims at more ecological and sustainable uses of water. The drought many countries have experienced in recent years has had significant impact on the availability of potable water. It is affected, for example, by drought, excessive use of water and changes to the soil. This means that how people use water and what kind of water-efficient measures they take has a significant impact on whether or not water resources will be sufficient for the future.