Submitted by: Ulrik Svenningsen of the Umea Institute of Design, Sweden

Project advisor: Peter Avondoglio

Every Drop Counts was selected because it aims to provide a low cost device that can meter water usage and detect running, dripping water as well as leaky pipes that waste unneccesary water.

Project description

Imagine all European cities cutting their water consumption down by 20 percent within a few years. The Every Drop Counts meter is aiming for just that. Based on cost allocation technology that has proven to save between 20 and 30 percent of heating consumption where applied, combined with a known method for detecting water leakages this new concept for water metering has a host of advantages over traditional water meters.

• Clamps onto the pipe (does not interfere with the system)

• Easy cost effective installing

• Inexpensive components (low cost per unit)

• Automatic relay of data

• Detached display shows how much water you use where you use it, and tells the tap water temperature.

Every Drop Counts is a proposal on how to solve a known and acknowledged problem that until now has been too expensive to solve.