Abstract—Energy and water are interconnected natural
resources and are vital utilities utilised by organisations to
enable their business delivery. Managing these resources within
the United Kingdom ‘UK’ is currently focused on energy
management with a small or neglected focus on water
management in non-domestic buildings. This paper explores,
through an overview of energy management policy, energy
management practice, the water market and supported by a case
study, the reasons for which the adoption of energy management
should be encouraged in order to stimulate greater water
management activity amongst organisations. The case study of
Northamptonshire County Council is presented in order to
illustrate energy management and water management activity in
a high performing ISO50001:2011 organisation, demonstrating
the authority’s current approach to implementing water
management and water efficiency projects. Results of this study
show that, first, water management can be linked to energy
management via the low emissions target for the UK. Second,
that the lessons learned from the adoption of energy
management by organisations are transferrable, and support a
wider adoption of water management: i.e. policy enforcement,
funding opportunities for water efficiency projects, etc.
Index Terms—Energy management, energy efficiency, water
management, non-domestic building, metering.
M. Azennoud, R. Bull, M. Lemon are with De Montfort University,
Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK (e-mail: p14187075@my365.dmu.ac.uk,
rbull@dmu.ac.uk, mlemon@dmu.ac.uk).
D. Perry is with Northamptonshire County Council, Northampton, NN1
1DN, UK (email: Daperry@northamptonshire.gov.uk).
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Cite:Marouane Azennoud, Richard Bull, Mark Lemon, and Darren Perry, "How Can the Process of Adopting Energy Management in Organisations Inform Water Management Practice?," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 417-421, 2017.
