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WaterSense

Commercial Buildings

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Office buildings, schools, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and other commercial and institutional facilities use a significant amount of water and energy in their daily operations.  Owners and managers of these types of facilities are increasingly aware of the need to use water more efficiently to reduce their risk to water shortages and increasing costs. There is a strong business case to be made for water efficiency.

WaterSense provides facility managers, building owners, and other stakeholders with a variety of resources and initiatives to help them save water, energy, and operating costs.  

Your facility can start saving today by taking action:


Water iconLearn how different types of facilities use water and which WaterSense tools can help your facility save the most.


Manage water iconMake the business case and get started managing water use through planning, metering, and leak detection. 


Reduce iconRead about the best management practices that can help reduce your facility's overall water use.


Tools & training iconAssess your facility's water use with our free tools, view webinars, read case studies, and more.


Decorative icon for water scoreMultifamily buildings can use the new EPA water score to measure and track building water use as a way to reduce operating costs and appeal to green-minded tenants.


Bell iconHotels can sign up for WaterSense's H2Otel Challenge, which helps hotel managers get free recognition, outreach, and technical tools to save water, energy, and money.


Resources iconReview additional resources to help facilities save water and energy, including information about ENERGY STAR® and federal facilities.