Water Stewardship

Uisce Éireann Commercial Water Stewardship Training

Uisce Éireann (formerly Irish Water) currently operates a comprehensive, industry-aligned Water Stewardship Training Programme. This specialised initiative is designed to support business customers across Ireland with advanced technical training, providing actionable strategies to drastically lower daily water consumption, shrink carbon footprints, and reduce overall facility operating costs while actively protecting the local environment.

[Certified Training] ──> On-Site Conservation Audits ──> Reduced Utility Bills ──> Lowered Environmental Impact

Why Invest in Commercial Water Stewardship?

Implementing a water stewardship framework within your business operations translates directly into tangible commercial and environmental advantages:

  • Drastic Operational Cost Reductions: Learn to identify hidden water distribution losses, optimise process loop efficiencies, and lower your trade effluent discharge fees.

  • Corporate Sustainability & Compliance: Align your business with modern Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandates, directly enhancing your green credentials for LEED, BREEAM, and Origin Green audits.

  • Actionable Conservation Strategies: Gain the engineering knowledge required to implement advanced systems—such as high-volume rainwater harvesting or closed-loop water recycling.

The Infrastructure Connection: As engineering and water treatment specialists, One Eight helps businesses implement the exact physical infrastructure required to achieve the conservation goals taught in the Uisce Éireann stewardship programme. From installing high-rejection Reverse Osmosis recycling setups to smart water metering, we turn your stewardship training into real-world utility savings

Commercial Water Conservation & Infrastructure Audits

In an era of rising utility rates, strict environmental regulations, and mandatory corporate sustainability reporting, managing your facility’s water footprint is a commercial necessity. At One Eight, we conduct comprehensive, engineering-led on-site water conservation and infrastructure audits for commercial, institutional, and industrial clients across Ireland.

Our specialized technical audits go far beyond basic meter readings. We map your entire facility’s water infrastructure from point-of-entry to effluent discharge, uncovering hidden system inefficiencies, identifying structural leaks, and engineering high-ROI recovery loops to drastically lower your operating costs.

Our 4-Stage Comprehensive Audit Methodology

Our technical team, backed by over 15 years of industrial water engineering experience, executes a rigorous, non-disruptive infrastructure analysis tailored to your site’s specific usage patterns:

1.Infrastructure Mapping & Mass Balance Analysis:Phase 1.

We trace and document your entire physical pipework network, asset connections, and storage arrays. By contrasting your main incoming billing meters against sub-metered production zones, we construct an accurate water mass balance to pinpoint exactly where every litre of water is consumed—or lost.

2.Ultrasonic Leak Detection & Flow Monitoring:Phase 2.

Utilising non-invasive clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters and advanced acoustic listening equipment, our engineers detect hidden underground pipework fractures, faulty valves, and passing system bypasses without requiring a single minute of facility downtime or production disruption.

3.Water Quality Profiling & Process Optimisation:Phase 3.

We extract raw water samples from diverse points across your operational loops to analyse chemical and biological profiles. Our team evaluates whether high-grade water is being wasted on low-tier applications, identifying prime candidates for safe, cost-effective water recycling and cascade reuse.

4.CAPEX Investment & ROI Reporting:Phase 4.

We deliver a fully itemised, data-driven engineering report outlining discovered inefficiencies. Every recommendation is backed by precise volumetric data, projected utility savings, estimated capital expenditure (CAPEX) costs, and definitive return on investment (ROI) timelines.

 

Clear Commercial & Operational Deliverables

Partnering with One Eight for an enterprise water audit provides your management team with actionable structural insights and measurable bottom-line benefits:

  • Substantial Effluent Cost Reduction: By engineering circular water recycling loops, you reduce both your incoming volumetric mains demand and your outgoing trade effluent discharge volume, compounding your financial savings.

  • CSRD & Origin Green Compliance: Our comprehensive audit documentation provides the verifiable, audit-ready data required to satisfy Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) mandates, ISO 14001 criteria, and Origin Green sustainability matrices.

  • Asset Protection & Reliability: We evaluate the health of your boilers, cooling towers, and filtration arrays, ensuring your water chemistry profile prevents premature limescale scaling, biological fouling, and structural corrosion.

 [Raw Supply Inflow] ──> [One Eight Audit & Optimization] ──> Reduced Mains Reliance
                                                           ──> Lowered Effluent Volume
                                                           ──> Permanent Utility Savings

Leverage Government Supports for Your Audit: Many commercial enterprises and manufacturing facilities in Ireland are eligible for financial assistance—such as the Enterprise Ireland or IDA Green Start/Green Plus grants—to cover the cost of professional sustainability and water stewardship audits. Contact our head office in Nenagh]to see if your facility qualifies for funded support

Why is safeguarding water important?


  • Although 71% of our planet is covered in water, less than 1% is accessible as clean drinking water. With sustainability now a top priority for the Irish government, managing our water infrastructure has never been more critical.

    Currently, Ireland’s aging water infrastructure operates under high strain, with nearly half of all treated water lost entirely through hidden network leakage. The severe summer drought of 2018 served as a stark warning, highlighting the urgent need for businesses and communities to work together to protect our most precious natural resource.

    To safeguard a prosperous, growing population and support industrial expansion, we must adopt proactive water stewardship practices today.

    At One Eight, we help commercial facilities and homeowners implement sustainable water management systems—including advanced rainwater recovery, leakage detection, and efficient filtration loops—to secure Ireland’s water future.

What are Water Steward training benefits?


Accredited Water Stewardship Certification & Global Best Practice

Align your corporate operations with international sustainability frameworks while cutting your utility overheads. By participating in the Water Stewardship Training Programme, your business can implement international best practice protocols on-site, backed by world-class engineering guidelines and official European accreditation.

Why Enrol? Strategic Operational & Environmental Deliverables

This pioneering initiative provides your operations and facilities teams with the advanced technical skillset required to identify water distribution waste, map internal process loops, and deliver measurable corporate advantages:

  • Achieve Accredited International Best Practice: The programme is fully accredited by the European Water Stewardship Standards (EWS), providing your enterprise with a verified, globally recognized framework for sustainable water management.

  • 100% Acceptable for Origin Green Credits: Origin Green fully accepts this official stewardship certification as a core component of their mandatory sustainability credential, streamlining your annual food, beverage, or agricultural supply-chain audits.

  • Substantial Volumetric & Financial Savings: Equip your engineering staff with the exact practical skills needed to lower daily commercial water consumption, optimise trade effluent loops, and drop facility operating costs.

  • Unrivalled Regulatory & Agency Backing: This initiative is the first of its kind globally and is fully endorsed and supported by Ireland’s leading regulatory and state development bodies, including the EPA, Enterprise Ireland, BIM, and IDA Ireland.

 [EWS Standard Enrollment] ──> On-Site Infrastructure Audits ──> Origin Green & EPA Compliance
                                                              ──> Lowered Operating Costs (ROI)

A Fully Funded Sustainability Programme

To encourage widespread adoption of sustainable engineering practices across Irish industry, this high-level training programme is fully funded for eligible business customers.

The initiative is delivered through a joint strategic partnership by Uisce Éireann and the Lean & Green Skillnet, with the active backing of Skillnet Ireland and the Department of Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. This allows your enterprise to upskill its technical workforce and implement advanced water conservation strategies with zero training overheads.

Turn Stewardship Training into Engineering Reality: Attaining your European Water Stewardship certification is the first step. At One Eight, our engineering team works directly with certified businesses to design, install, and commission the physical infrastructure required to hit your new conservation targets—including smart sub-metering arrays, industrial rainwater recovery systems, and advanced closed-loop filtration setups

How to register?


Call the office on 067 53886 for more information.


Contact Us

One Eight has the unique resources and expertise to create a water solutions from source through profiling, and treatment. We have the ability to allow you to reuse your water for industrial purposes or you can choose to avail of our processes to bring your water back to EU drinking water standards