Pre-Rinse Spray Valve Programs

2014 – 2018

The Pre-Rinse Spray Valve was an initiative independently adopted across BC. The program provides guaranteed water, energy, and greenhouse gas savings for every business visited. It built goodwill among business owners and managers, and provides a foot in the door to cost-effectively deliver information and advice about energy and water savings opportunities, utility rebate programs, and upcoming City bylaws and regulations. And it makes dishwashing staff happy by providing them with better tools to make their jobs easier.

City Green has delivered several of these programs for a client list that includes: The City of Vancouver, the Capital Regional District, the City of Richmond, and the Vancouver International Airport. The program results can be impressive. The 2014 program resulted in annual savings of over 100 million litres of water, 80 million litres of hot water, and nearly 20 thousand gigajoules of fuel from the spray valve installations alone. Additionally, faucet aerators saved tens of millions of litres of water and hot water and thousands of gigajoules of fuel annually. This program has also resulted in considerable greenhouse gas emissions reductions.