Commercial water efficiency & cost reduction
How a water cost review works
Four straightforward stages, the heavy lifting on us — from a free first look to verified savings on your account.
A water cost review only delivers if the process behind it is rigorous and easy to engage with. Ours is deliberately simple from your side — four stages, with the heavy lifting on us — but thorough underneath. Here is exactly what happens from your first enquiry to the moment the savings land on your account.
Free initial review
We take a recent bill and your latest meter reads and tell you, at no cost, whether there is a saving worth pursuing and roughly how large it is. No obligation, no jargon, no pressure to proceed.
Desktop analysis
We study at least twelve months of consumption data to establish your baseline, benchmark you against your sector, and pinpoint the overnight flow and anomalies that point to waste, leaks or billing errors.
On-site building water survey
A consultant walks your premises, verifies the meter, measures flow rates and flush volumes, inspects plant and process water, and tests for leaks — turning the desktop estimates into hard evidence.
Costed report and savings
You receive a prioritised report with a saving and payback against every measure. We then help you implement, and recover any overcharges from your retailer on a no-saving, no-fee basis.
What we need from you
Very little. To start the free review we need a recent water bill and, ideally, twelve months of meter reads. For the on-site survey we need access to the premises and a brief steer on where your plant and process water sit. Everything else — the analysis, the supplier liaison, the recovery paperwork — sits with us.
How long it takes
The free initial review usually takes only a few days once we have your bill. A full survey and report for a single site is typically completed within two to four weeks, depending on size and access. Overcharge recovery runs on the water retailer's timescale, but we manage it from start to finish and keep you updated throughout.
How we are paid
We keep this transparent. The initial review is free. Overcharge and tariff recovery is contingency-based — no saving, no fee — so it costs you nothing unless we put money back on your account. Efficiency surveys can be arranged on a fixed fee or, on larger programmes, on a share of verified savings, whichever suits you better. See pricing for detail.
Because we are independent of every water retailer and sell no fittings, the only thing steering our recommendations is your saving. That independence is the whole point.
Ready to begin? Book your free initial review and we will tell you what is on the table before you commit to anything.
Why the order matters
The four steps run in this sequence for a reason. Starting at the desk with your data means the on-site visit is targeted rather than exploratory, which keeps your costs down and our findings sharp. Surveying before recommending means every measure is grounded in something we have actually seen. And costing before acting means you never spend on a measure without knowing its payback first.
You stay in control throughout. We recommend; you decide. There is no obligation to use us for the remediation, and you own the report at the end.
What we need from you
Very little, and that is deliberate. To begin we need your recent water bills and, ideally, access to your meter data; for the survey we need a few hours on site and someone who knows the building. From there the work is ours. The process is designed to take up as little of your team's time as possible while still producing findings you can rely on.
- Recent water and wastewater bills
- Meter details and, where available, half-hourly data
- A short site visit at a time that suits your operation
- A point of contact who knows how the building runs
After the report
Handing over the report is not the end of the relationship unless you want it to be. Many clients ask us to help prioritise the work, brief their contractors, or monitor consumption afterwards to confirm the savings have actually landed and then stayed. Others take the report and run with it entirely in-house. Either way the choice is yours, because you own the document and there is no obligation attached to it — the process is built around your decisions, not ours.
Getting started
The whole process begins with a single, no-obligation conversation. You share your recent bills and a little about the building; we tell you whether a full review is likely to be worthwhile and how we would go about it. From there the pace is yours — there is no pressure to proceed and no commitment until you are satisfied the numbers stack up. Book your free initial review and we will take it from there.