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The First Step to Improving Building Water Efficiency

By tracking water use alongside energy use, you can better understand how these resources relate to one another, make integrated management decisions that increase overall efficiency, and verify savings from improvement projects in both energy and water systems. Organizations that manage water and energy performance together can take advantage of this relationship to create greener, more sustainable buildings.

Portfolio Manager helps you track and assess energy and water consumption within individual buildings as well as across your entire building portfolio. Enter energy consumption and cost data into your Portfolio Manager account to benchmark building energy performance, assess energy management goals over time, and identify strategic opportunities for savings and recognition opportunities.

Any building can efficiently track and manage resources through the use of Portfolio Manager. The tool allows you to streamline your portfolio's energy and water data, and track key consumption, performance, and cost information portfolio-wide. For example, you can:

  • Track multiple energy and water meters for each facility
  • Customize meter names and key information
  • Benchmark your facilities relative to their past performance
  • View percent improvement in weather-normalized source energy
  • Monitor energy and water costs
  • Share your building data with others inside or outside of your organization
  • Enter operating characteristics, tailored to each space use category within your building.

To get started, simply login to your Portfolio Manager account and follow the links for adding water meters to your facilities. If you do not have an account, learn how to set one up. Visit EPA's Water Efficiency Program for more information on water efficiency.