Your villa’s water, in five minutes.
On a small rental property, water is not an abstract sustainability line - it is the pool that evaporates all summer, the garden that drinks every evening, and the tanker or well pump that quietly sets your bill. Answer a short set of questions about your place and get an independent, evidence-graded picture of where the water goes and what could come back.
Free. No equipment sales, no supplier commission, no site visit required.
What you get.
The same engine we run for hotels and resorts, asked in the language of a property with no back-of-house and no engineering team.
A graded water balance
How much water your property likely uses in a year, split between guests, the pool and the garden - with every figure marked measured, reported or modelled so you know what to trust.
Your own Water Loop
A single visual of the water coming in, where it drops away, and the share that could realistically return to irrigation, flushing or pool top-up.
What to measure next
A short, ordered list of the cheapest things to check or meter before anyone quotes you for a system. Usually one afternoon of work.
What we ask for.
Property characteristics only. No guest data, no meter readings required, and nothing is shared with vendors or installers unless you send it yourself.
- Bedrooms
- How many bedrooms guests actually sleep in.
- Season and occupancy
- Whether you let year-round and roughly how full you are.
- Pool
- None, small, or a main pool - and whether there is a water feature.
- Garden
- Roughly how much planted area gets irrigated.
- Water source
- Mains, borehole, tanker delivery, or a mix.
- Your bill, if handy
- Optional. A metered annual figure upgrades the whole snapshot from modelled to measured.
This is the output.
The Water Loop below is generated by the same engine that will run your snapshot, here for an illustrative four-bedroom villa with a small pool and 600 m² of planted grounds. Yours will look like this, with your numbers.
Your water loop
748 m³ drawn in today
Recovery potential
Against 748 m³ of total intake
138 m³
recoverable each year
18%
of everything you buy in
91 guest-nights
of supply, covered again
The pale band behind is the ceiling - 262 m³ if every matched stream were captured in full. The gap is what a measured study would go after.
What the property draws in today.
- Supply and demand, at true volume
- Leaves the property
- Could come back
- Ceiling if captured in full
Return lanes have a minimum width so a real opportunity is never hairline-thin - the exact volumes are on each label.
What could come back
- Pool backwash→ External washdowncovers 100% of it33–124 m³/yr
- Greywater→ Toilet flushingcovers 100% of it25–97 m³/yr
- Rainwater→ Landscape irrigationcovers 3% of it6.8–26 m³/yr
Or ask us to run it for you.
Leave your details and we will come back with your free snapshot and the short list of things worth measuring. No cost, no equipment sales, and nothing shared with installers.
The costs owners actually recognise.
The snapshot puts numbers and evidence grades against each of these, rather than a generic sustainability score.
Pool top-up
In a hot, dry summer an uncovered pool can lose several millimetres of depth a day to evaporation - on a 70 m² pool that is tens of cubic metres over a season, before backwash.
Summer irrigation
Planted grounds are usually the single largest demand on a villa, and the one most exposed to hosepipe bans and drought restrictions.
Tanker deliveries
Where mains supply is thin, tankered water can cost many times the metered rate - and August is exactly when both the price and the demand peak.
Well and pump running
A borehole feels free until you count the pumping energy, the falling summer water table and the treatment it needs before it reaches a guest tap.
Common questions
- Is the snapshot really free?
- Yes. The Water Snapshot is free and there is no engineering commitment. Aquiterum is independent: we sell no equipment and take no commission from installers, so the snapshot has nothing to steer you towards.
- Do I need my water bill to start?
- No. Every figure can be modelled from your property characteristics. If you do have a metered annual figure, entering it upgrades the snapshot from modelled to measured and tightens every band that follows.
- Will someone try to sell me a system afterwards?
- No. The output is a pre-feasibility read plus a short measurement plan. If it points to something worth doing, you take it to a qualified specialist of your choosing - we do not refer, resell or take commission.
- Is my property too small for this to be worth doing?
- Rarely. On small rental properties the pool and garden dominate the bill, and those are exactly the demands that recovered water can serve. The snapshot scales recovery against those specific uses rather than against total intake, so a small saving still reads as what it covers.
- What if the pool or garden is shared across several units?
- Enter the shared pool and planted area once and give the total number of bedrooms across the units that share it. The snapshot then reflects the block as one property, which is how the water actually behaves.
- What do I do with the result?
- Start with the measurement plan - usually a handful of cheap checks you can do yourself. Once those numbers exist, the snapshot becomes a credible brief for a plumber, pool engineer or water specialist, instead of a sales conversation you walk into blind.
Related guides
- How much water does a hotel room use?Litres per occupied room night by property type, with the bands we publish.
- Hotel water audits, explainedWhat an audit covers, what it costs, and what a free pre-feasibility snapshot does instead.
- Greywater recycling, explainedThe largest recoverable stream in most hotels - and the hardest to retrofit.
- AC condensate recoveryNear-distilled water your chillers already make, in phase with summer demand.
Find out what your place could put back.
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