What is a hotel water audit?

A structured review of every place water enters, is used, and leaves a property. A full audit combines meter and sub-meter data, a site walkthrough of plant rooms, kitchens, laundry and irrigation, fixture-by-fixture flow measurement, and a reconciliation of measured supply against accounted-for use.

How much does a hotel water audit cost?

A qualified engineering audit is a paid professional engagement, typically scoped by property size and the number of buildings, and usually delivered over several weeks. Aquiterum publishes no cost or payback figures because they depend entirely on local tariffs, labour rates and site conditions - your specialist quotes that, not us.

Is a free vendor audit the same thing?

No. A vendor audit is generally free because it ends in a quotation for that vendor's equipment. It is useful, but it is not independent: the opportunities surfaced tend to be the ones the vendor can supply.

What does Aquiterum do instead?

Aquiterum is pre-feasibility, not an audit. It builds a graded water balance from your answers and published coefficients in about five minutes, ranks realistic recovery and reuse opportunities, and produces a Loop Plan you take into the audit or specialist conversation. It never replaces site inspection, engineering design or regulatory approval.

When should we commission a full audit?

When you already know roughly where the water goes and which opportunities are worth engineering. Commissioning an audit without that view usually means paying a specialist to discover the obvious - which is exactly the gap a free snapshot closes.

Guide

Hotel water audits, explained.

A hotel water audit is a structured, measured review of where water enters, is used, and leaves a property - meters, plant rooms, kitchens, laundry, pools, irrigation and drainage. It is a paid engineering engagement. Pre-feasibility comes first: know roughly where the water goes before you pay a specialist to find out.

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Three stages, in order

1. Pre-feasibility
You, in about five minutes
Build a graded water balance and shortlist the recovery opportunities that are plausible for a property of your shape. Free, independent, no site visit.
This is where Aquiterum sits
2. Water audit
A qualified engineer or water consultant
Meter and sub-meter analysis, site walkthrough, fixture flow tests, drainage inspection, water-quality sampling. Confirms or overturns the pre-feasibility picture with measured fact.
3. Engineering design
Specialist designer, plus your regulator
Sizing, hydraulics, treatment class selection, permits, risk-management plan, capital cost and payback. Nothing on the Aquiterum platform substitutes for this stage.

Scope

What a full audit covers

Twelve months of billed and metered supply, reconciled against accounted-for use.
Sub-metering review, and temporary logging where sub-meters are absent.
Night-flow analysis to size leakage and unaccounted-for water.
Fixture and appliance flow rates across rooms, kitchen and back of house.
Plant inspection: cooling systems, boilers, pools, laundry, irrigation controls.
Drainage survey - the step that decides whether greywater separation is even possible.
Water-quality sampling where reuse is being considered.

Independence

Why who pays matters

Most free hotel water assessments are supplied by companies that sell treatment plant, fixtures or chemicals. That is a legitimate business model, but it shapes the finding: an audit funded by a quotation tends to surface the opportunities that quotation can serve.

Aquiterum sells no equipment and takes no supplier commission. Every coefficient we apply is published on the methodology page with its source, and every figure carries an evidence grade so you can see which parts of the picture rest on your data and which rest on ours. Nothing about our output points at a product.

Common questions

What is a hotel water audit?: A structured review of every place water enters, is used, and leaves a property. A full audit combines meter and sub-meter data, a site walkthrough of plant rooms, kitchens, laundry and irrigation, fixture-by-fixture flow measurement, and a reconciliation of measured supply against accounted-for use.
How much does a hotel water audit cost?: A qualified engineering audit is a paid professional engagement, typically scoped by property size and the number of buildings, and usually delivered over several weeks. Aquiterum publishes no cost or payback figures because they depend entirely on local tariffs, labour rates and site conditions - your specialist quotes that, not us.
Is a free vendor audit the same thing?: No. A vendor audit is generally free because it ends in a quotation for that vendor's equipment. It is useful, but it is not independent: the opportunities surfaced tend to be the ones the vendor can supply.
What does Aquiterum do instead?: Aquiterum is pre-feasibility, not an audit. It builds a graded water balance from your answers and published coefficients in about five minutes, ranks realistic recovery and reuse opportunities, and produces a Loop Plan you take into the audit or specialist conversation. It never replaces site inspection, engineering design or regulatory approval.
When should we commission a full audit?: When you already know roughly where the water goes and which opportunities are worth engineering. Commissioning an audit without that view usually means paying a specialist to discover the obvious - which is exactly the gap a free snapshot closes.

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