Data, monitoring needed as water tariff increases threaten to become core business cost

Beyond the challenges to water security presented by population growth, urbanisation, poor infrastructure and water treatment, companies must start measuring their water use throughout their processes and leveraging this information to ensure the efficient use of this resource, water engineering and services company Talbot CEO Carl Haycock has advised. Water tariffs have risen by about 10% to 15% over the past few years and, if this rate of price escalations continues for the next five to ten years, water could become a serious cost to businesses.