AWE Water Conservation Tracking Tool

Need help in planning your water conservation programs? The Alliance for Water Efficiency now has a solution for you. Many months in development, the AWE Water Conservation Tracking Tool was finished after a successful beta testing period with a number of water utilities. The Tool -- complete with a detailed User Guide -- is available free of charge to all AWE members in good standing.

What the Tracking Tool Is

The Tool is an Excel-based model that can evaluate the water savings, costs, and benefits of conservation programs for a specific water utility, using either English or Metric units. Using information entered into the Tool from the utility’s system, it provides a standardized methodology for water savings and benefit-cost accounting, and includes a library of pre-defined conservation activities from which users can build conservation programs.

Water utility managers can use the Tool in a variety of ways to aid their water resource planning and operations:

• Quickly compare alternative conservation measures in terms of their water savings potential, impact on system costs, and potential benefits to utility customers.
• Develop long-range conservation plans. Construct conservation portfolios containing up to 50 separate conservation program activities.
• Track the implementation, water savings, costs, and benefits of actual conservation activities over time.
• Evaluate a utility’s changing revenue requirement with conservation.

The Tool counts the savings achieved from national plumbing code and appliance standards. For California and Texas, states that have stricter requirements for toilets by 2014, a separate version of the Tool is available for them that incorporates these new legislative changes.

How the Alliance Will Help

The Alliance will provide a detailed User Guide with the Tool, as well as one (1) hour of free technical assistance to any member using the Tool. We have also set up a thread in our discussion forum to help you with your questions. And let us know your experiences with the Tool! We would like to feature successful examples of the Tool in use on our web site, so please let us know how it has worked for you.

How to Get the Tracking Tool

The Tool is available free of charge to AWE members, but it is subject to your agreement to the Water Conservation Tracking Tool Terms of Use. Current members click here to read and accept the Terms of Use and to obtain a copy of the Tool from the AWE staff. AWE members in California and Texas will automatically receive the version of the Tool appropriate for those states.

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 Funded in Part by a Grant from The Home Depot Foundation