Global industrialization is increasing water demand: nowadays water use in industries represents 19% of global water consumption. The expectation is that it increases by 400% by 2050.

The facility of Wyeth Nutrition located in Askeaton, Co. Limerick has been the case study for sustainable use of water resources and wastewater management strategies. Even though Wyeth Nutrition does not pay any bill to Irish Water, as it is responsible for its own source of water from the local river, how much the full chain of obtaining, treating, distributing and discharging water cost to the company?

Water used in process and utility applications require further energy input from cooling towers, chillers and boilers to meet temperature requirements. In addition, water treatment may be required pre and post-process. These factors are interconnected and increase the real cost of water while introducing system inefficiencies.

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