Today, organisers of festivals, culinary events and sporting events face challenges invoicing customers (external end-water-users) like food trucks, sponsor booths, hospitality areas, and privately managed kitchens, a realistic price for their water connection and their used water volume.
Currently, the end-user is invoiced a part of the existing infrastructure price and a lumpsum amount to contribute to the overall event water usage, no matter how much water is used. This often results in end-users leaving the water taps running, wasting drinking water.
MTD is moving away from an equipment plumber and towards a service supplier – a water partner. It is no longer about renting and connecting equipment but supplying a service and starts with transparency in pricing. Organisers will receive an offer for the main infrastructure and dedicate service rates for end-user connections based on their peak usage water volume. These service rates include all the equipment and labour needed to make the connection.
As an extra add-on, MTD has developed a new program, “Water as a Service”, which gives transparency in the price for each water connection and monitors the water volume “real-time”. With this option, the organiser can invoice their end-user clients a fee for the service per m3 of drinking water. With this complete solution, the event organiser becomes more sustainable by creating awareness for the end-users about their water usage, which will immediately result in water savings.
The “Water As A Service” benefits for the event organizers
- Organizers receive a fixed service rate for any water connection of an end-user application. Organisers receive a clear overview of different service rates on an MTD menu rate card.
- Transparency – MTD installs a real-time water meter, which measures and monitors in real-time the water usage volume. This information is for all stakeholders available anytime and “real-time” on a personalised dashboard on their PC or smartphone.
- Event organisers can invoice the end-water-users the correct price of the water connection and the actual m3 usage of drinking water.
- Awareness of water usage is resulting in reduction of overall drinking water for the event.
The “Water As A Service” benefits for the external end-users
- Transparency in data for the end-user.
- Personalised dashboard for each end-user to monitor water usage on smartphone/PC.
- End-users receive a fair price for their water connection.
- End-users pay for the water service per m3 used drinking water usage.