Reducing Water Use

The monitoring and reporting of water use will act as a driver for reducing water use and wastage at all levels of the organisation.

The NHS should consider the many opportunities to recycle water on NHS sites. Ideas such as recycling clean water from sterilisers and dialysis machines have been trialled and adopted in other countries.

NHS organisations should adopt a policy of using only tap water for meetings on their sites, rather than buying in bottled water. It takes energy, transport, and many litres of water to produce a half litre of bottled water. Leakages often remain undetected for long periods of time, wasting huge volumes of water and therefore money.