How to promote a clean bill of health for water systems

Caring goes beyond providing a roof, four walls and three meals a day. The safety of your residents is paramount to your role as a care provider. As the demand for care rises, ensuring safety and compliance while managing costs will become increasingly important. However, a further challenge is that the sector is currently facing a significant funding crisis, so maintaining high quality care while reducing costs wherever possible will be vital to care businesses avoiding insolvency. 

The UK could face a national care crisis without enough care homes to cater for increasing demand. Optimising energy management, ensuring continuance compliance and maintaining unwavering health and safety standards are three ways in which operators can reduce costs while maintaining or improving quality of care. Water has a role in each of these areas. 

Sustainability will become another challenge for care home operators. Alongside this, compliance is likely to become more challenging as it begins to factor in sustainability. Factors such as the Paris Agreement and growing public consciousness about climate change will begin to have an influence on every sector. What’s more, the UK could be subject to significant water shortages by the year 2050. This was widely covered in the national press in 2018 when the Environment Agency issued a stark warning over water wastage and overuse, highlighting the increasing pressure on strained water supplies and the impact on the nation’s ecological wellbeing.