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Water
Recycling – Building it into your budget
For every new building, life-cycle costing plays a major part in the
project budget. For a new hotel, the cost of installing a water
recycling system could account for approximately half of one percent
of the total building budget with a consequent saving of up to forty
percent in water use and a return on investment in under five years.
For a University halls of residence, the costs and savings are
similar just as they would be for naval and military residential
blocks. Leisure centres and public swimming pools can produce even
greater savings due to their particular use of water. For domestic
residential dwellings, for a total cost in the order of £1,400 a
payback period of five years or less can be achieved.
Recycling water saves running costs; it also proves and proclaims
the environmental awareness of the owner/developer.
Can you afford to
ignore the potential cost, public image and conversation benefits
that water recycling provides? |