Research and Application of Best Practices for Water Saving in Industry

Water is a crucial resource for the earth and therefore for all living beings on earth such human. This
article is focused on how to optimize water usage (saving) in industrial environment. This sector has a
huge impact on water: usage, pollution, etc. The first step was to define and apply a water management
and the second step to make research on each opportunity identified and to implement it. All those
actions have been carried out in a pharmaceutical manufacturing site. Water saving have been done on
different application: washing machine, heat pump on chiller system, osmosis inverses system on
purified water and continuous measurement device of water quality. The site’s water consumption has
been reduced by 40% in less than 6 years.