Original title: Water Neutrality at NAV Sites
Funding amount: £2,898,000
Led by: Affinity Water
Partners: Albion Water Limited, Aquality Trading & Consulting Ltd, BUUK Infrastructure UK No 2 Ltd, Grapviners Ltd, H2OiQ Ltd, Hydraloop International, Propelair – Phoenix Product Development Ltd, SDS Ltd, Skewb.
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This project will deliver a sustainable, water-saving solution in response to new housing developments being built. Winning £2.9 million, this project will minimise water demand and offset water consumption with new technologies, to ensure the total water use in the community remains the same as it was before the new homes were built. We will manage the usage and offset requirements across three sites by installing water saving devices in residential properties – shower heads, tap inserts and larger infrastructure such as greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting units. This will minimise demand in customers’ homes. We will also install larger technologies on commercial buildings like schools and leisure centres – for example greywater recycling and ultra low flush toilets. This will offset customer usage and maintain existing baseline network demand. We will also be monitoring at a detailed level the patterns and trends of usage. This will allow us to adopt an open-data approach and share anonymised insights in water usage with the wider innovation market.
Following the implementation of our smart solution at Bidwell, we have undertaken API integration into IWNL systems giving them access to the site data to support their customers. We are at a stage of testing the consumer app, with upcoming consumer tests to follow in housing testing. We have reviewed our data strategy and working with a mix of internal and external stakeholders to maximise our analysis of the smart data from Bidwell and site 1. We will be looking to share the outputs over the coming quarter and beyond for Bidwell through the creation of the site monitoring dashboard. We continue to take our learnings from Project Zero and share with a variety of stakeholders, including a recent knowledge share at the British Water ‘Creating a More Sustainable Water Sector’ Conference.
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