Water consumption


In Brabant, there are organisations working on a daily basis to make Brabant a better place. The BrabantWater, BrabantWonen, and BrabantZorg (Brabant Care) organisations are among the most important. These organisations shall also be closely linked: B’Zorg (B’Care provides care in B’Wonen’ homes, while B’Water supplies the water here.


The organisations have together identified a challenge: “reducing water wastage in nursing homes.” In order to prevent the legionella bacteria from being allowed to spread into the water of public buildings, the authorities require that the water pipes in these buildings be flushed through the X number of weeks. However, the three organisations expect that more to be flushed than necessary. At present, no account is taken of the context around the flushing process. For example, outdoor temperature is not taken into account, while Legionella is thriving in warm water.


For this reason, these three Brabant organisations are bringing together a case where a challenge is to predict the risk of legionella outbreak in the water. In this way the water can be flushed at more suitable times.