Posts Tagged ‘payback’
There are a few things that just go well together. Peanut butter and jelly. Cinnamon and sugar. Gray water systems and hotels. Sure, that last one doesn’t roll off the tongue like the others, but it has the same end result: happiness.
If you have reservations about adding a gray water system to your hotel, I invite you to dig a little deeper. Read about our quick payback periods or the fact that these systems are internationally approved. Today, the Brac System appears in almost any kind of setting where people are consuming copious amounts of water, including resorts, dorms, military barracks, mixed-use buildings–the list goes on.
And if you add a gray water system to your next big project, there’s a good chance that you will seem like a miniature superhero to your clients. Why? Because you will be saving them a tremendous amount of money, as well as doing something good for the environment.
So c’mon. Save the day (and some dough). To add a gray water system to your hotel or any other commercial project, start here, and we’ll take it from there.
The Smiths live in Greenville, South Carolina. The Johnsons live right next door to them. Both the Smiths and the Johnsons are families of four, and both families use 94,900 gallons of water every year. If the Smiths have a gray water recycling system and conserve 35% of their water, how much smarter are the Smiths than the Johnsons?
The answer: this much (you can’t see me, but my arms are spread really wide).
All kidding aside, these sorts of word problems drove me crazy in school. But sometimes you have to bite the bullet and do a little number crunching. Today, I’m looking at the local price of water and calculating an average payback period for a RGW-250.
Look out–here come the numbers.
As we talk with architects, engineers and developers about gray water recycling, one question comes up again and again: how long does it take for these systems to pay for themselves? When that happens, we give our standard answer: there is no standard answer.
Since payback periods vary depending on freshwater expenses, wastewater treatment fees, usage and other factors, it’s difficult for us to give an accurate, catch-all answer regarding payback periods. However, the following case study is a good example of a return on investment for one commercial gray water system.
