Well, How Much Water Do You Use?

Water shortages prevail throughout the United States and across the world. Needless to say, regulatory groups, Municipalities and federal regulations have imposed restrictions and more enfaces have been placed on enforcements of water usage limits. With users facing greater fines and ever increasing water prices it is time to address the water usage issue with your facility, building or any operation that uses water.

If you are a facilities, building, plant or operations manager, you are under pressure to take control of your water usage.

Step One
Determine how much water you are using. Your first reference point might be a city water meter on your influent water. If you question this meter, it’s a simple task to test it using a Calibrated Portable Ultrasonic Transit Time Flow Meter to validate it.

Step Two
Now that you know what your water influent is, you need to determine where it goes. Imagine a tree with the main trunk representing the influent water and all the limbs representing branch lines. In theory, if you add up all the branch lines they should equal the main line. Based on your needs, you can monitor the extremely low water usage from a restroom or as large as a reactor in a power plant. Again non-contact Ultrasonic Transit time flow meters are your solution to collecting this data.

Step Three
What is your effluent or return back to the sanitary sewer system? Many sewer bills are based on the actual influent into a facility and have little regards for the actual effluent usage. As an example, take a car wash facility. They use a large volume of water, but most of it is recycled and this can make a considerable difference from the influent and assumed effluent usage totals.

Step Four
Collect your flow data. If you going from pipe to pipe you can just jot down the information, if you need to conduct a time study, then you can Data log the data.

Step Five
Analyze your compiled data. This is the separation point from the do it yourself and the professionals.

If you are in the discovery process and have the labor available, the rental or purchase of a portable Ultrasonic Transit time flow meter would be a logical first step. It’s simple to operate. Instruments Direct offers quick phone training and free tech support. Need to analyze your flow data? Instruments Direct can help you with that too.

Do you need someone to conduct your flow survey and analyze the data? Instruments Direct can also offer assistance with our field services group. We have over 30 years of experience and might be able to point you in the right direction to save you to enhance your water usage situation.

We can provide you with rental ultrasonic flow meters for you to conduct your own flow survey.

Need a flow survey professional? Then Instruments Direct Field services can perform your flow survey or a complete building water usage audit. Call Instruments Direct at 1(888)722-5543 and speak with an application engineer to review your flow usage monitoring needs.