As a result of these efforts, the average water consumption savings per facility was over 60.5 million liters per year, with one facility saving over 33 million gallons per year and a grand total for all 5 facilities saving close to 83 million gallons of water per year.

The five systems were designed to operate at 75% recovery. These lower recovery facilities require more energy to process the water. By switching to Vitec we were able to help increase the recovery which not only resulted in water savings but also energy savings. For perspective, when the recovery increases from 75% to 85% using an Avista antiscalant, the cost savings in energy use can be reduced on average by 13.9%.

Although the average membrane element service life should average about 5 years, several of the facilities were replacing all their membranes more than one time per year.  Avista carefully selected targeted antiscalants, applied proper system operation procedures, and updated cleaning chemicals. As a result the customer replaced their membranes 63.3 % less than prior to working with Avista. This led to 331 less membranes going to landfills each year.