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Sprinklers Will Save UK Billions
22 February 2012
The Business Sprinkler Alliance is calling on UK businesses to install automatic fire sprinklers to save billions of litres of water every year, in advance of the water crisis talks being held with utility companies, environmental NGOs and farming groups to discuss how to mitigate the impact of persistent dry conditions.
The call to action is the result of findings by Bureau Veritas in a report, entitled “Assessing The Role For Fire Sprinklers”, which reveals that simply by installing fire sprinklers in commercial and industrial buildings, England and Wales could save over nine billion litres of water every year. Sprinkler systems stop or control fires in advance of the fire and rescue service arriving and often use only 0.2 percent of the water used to extinguish a fire in a building that has no sprinklers.