Industrial - Commercial - Institutional Clients
Areas of Expertise

WMI has developed broad expertise for a wide range of clients within the ICI sector. As illustrated below, WMI has the knowledge, expertise and experience to design and implement water savings programs in any type of ICI facility.

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Healthcare Facilities: WMI has successfully implemented water efficiency programs for hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities. Our water saving measures include: cooling towers, sterilizers, steamers, laundry rooms, once-thru water cooled systems, faucets, toilets, x-ray equipment, vacuum systems and more. These measures allow institutions to reduce operating costs and utilize savings to provide better patient care.

Correctional Institutions Audits conducted by Water Management on local, state and federal facilities indicate that prisoners with access to toilets in their cells flush approximately 18 times per day. For many of these clients water conservation has never been an issue, but with rising municipal water and waste water treatment costs and the need to reduce budgets, it has become a high priority.

Military: Government buildings and military installations have historically had antiquated water infrastructures. WMI has solved this problem by identifying waste and implementing programs that pay for themselves out of actual saving - typically in less than 5 years.

Correctional Institutions: Audits conducted by Water Management on local, state and federal facilities indicate that prisoners with access to toilets in their cells flush approximately 18 times per day. For many of these clients, water conservation has never been an issue. With rising municipal water and waste water treatment costs; and the need to reduce budgets - Water Conservation has become a high priority

              

Many institutional facilities have gang showers that are controlled by one valve WMI’s solution is to upgrade the room and install timed controls with tempered water.

Designing a water saving irrigation system starts by doing a comprehensive irrigation system audit to identify key factors that influence performance efficiency. Some of these factors include distribution uniformity, precipitation rate, controller settings, pressure and how these interact with existing property soil characteristics. Delivering the correct amount of water to the turf, trees, shrubs and flowers at the right interval and in the right way requires expertise in evapotranspiration (ET) and soil dynamics. Choosing the right technology for the your landscape application is the key to please the passerby or any user of the property. The best manual irrigation, ET controller, or soil moisture sensor will not be effective without correctly integrating irrigation system components with the natural landscape. Achieve top water saving capability through proper analysis and implementation. Improve the aesthetics of your property thru proper installation, maintenance and oversight of your irrigation system.

              

Military: Government buildings and military installations have historically had antiquated water infrastructures. WMI has solved this problem by identifying waste and designing programs that pay for themselves out of actual savings - typically in less than 5 years.

              

Older dormitories and base housing often have sinks with separate hot and cold spigots where water flow can not be controlled. WMI’s solution is to replace the sink and the faucet so that you can reduce flow from over 4 gallons per minute to less than 1.0 gallon per minute. Note many older sinks leak.

Heated swimming pools offer an enormous opportunity to save energy, water and chemicals. The old solution was to install an expensive pool cover that was seldom used by the pool staff even weeks after installation. WMI’s solution is to use an innovative new chemical that forms a thin barrier on the surface of the pool – it reduces heat loss by close to 50% and water evaporation by over 30%. The product is completely safe and cost effective from day one.

              

Schools / Universities: School officials face the difficult task of balancing their budget when faced with ever increasing educational expenses and operating costs. Measures for elementary schools typically involve only the replacement of toilets and faucets, whereas high schools often include additional measures for irrigation, cooling towers and cafeterias. Campus wide programs for Universities offer many opportunities for savings and require a great deal of analysis before implementing a program.

                               

Cooling tower systems use significant amounts of water. Our measures typically include replacing mechanical floats with electronic floats. Increasing cycles of concentration and reducing scale to the chiller is also essential and one of the ways we accomplish this is by installing 0.5 micron side stream filtration systems.

Healthcare Facilities: WMI has successfully implemented water efficiency programs for hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare type facilities. Water efficiency measures have been implemented for: cooling towers, sterilizers, steamers, laundry rooms, once thru water cooled systems, faucets, toilets, x-ray equipment, vacuum systems and more… implementing such measures allows these institutions to reduce operating costs and reallocate savings towards patient care.

              

Facility administrators often refer to their on-site laundries as money pits. The easiest way to save water and energy is to outsource this activity. If outsourcing is not an option then WMI’s solution would be to install a recycling system and/or an ozone system. Pictured above is the removal of an poorly functioning wet lint collector – it used over 20 gallons per minute of water.

Hotels: There are eleven different categories of hotels. Some budget hotels use as little as 20 gallons of water per occupied room per night whereas resort hotels can use as much as 250 gallons of water per occupied room. For the higher end hotels, utility costs are often a small portion of the overall operating costs. Therefore, it is necessary that any water saving measures must perform the same or better than the measure they are replacing.

    

Kitchens offer many opportunities for water and energy savings. WMI’s solution is to replace outdated dishwashing equipment, upgrade steamers to connectionless steamers, install high pressure pre rinse spray nozzles, and eliminate and convert once-thru water cooled equipment to air cooled.