The Benefits of Incoming Mains Water Filtration

Date: 21/03/2022
Read Time: 2 min
Author: Andrew Cox

Key points:

• Sediment in municipal water systems leads to aesthetic and maintenance issues
• Sediment can cause up to 25% water wastage due to leakage, highlighting the need for effective filtration solutions.

Sediment is present in varying degrees in all municipal water supplies, especially in areas where the pipe infrastructure is old. This can cause not only aesthetic, but also maintenance problems.

Current research by the Australian Government shows that up to 26% of mains water used both in commercial and domestic properties, is wasted due to leaking taps, pipes, cisterns and valves.  And most of that stems from the presence of small particles in the water which create friction and corrosion in moving parts.

Over the past few decades, Southland Filtration has seen the positive results from automatically removing sediment from incoming mains supply, where customers have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. One customer reported back that the installation of an automatic screen filter on the inlet to a large milk processing facility saved over $100,000 in just the first 6 months of installation.  Another commercial hotel reported in with similar results of over $100,000 of tangible savings within 12 months of installation.

We have been supplying automatic backwashing systems from German manufacturer Judo, and French manufacturer Autofine for over 20 years. The automatic self-cleaning screen capacity of these filters drastically reduces both filter and downstream equipment maintenance and expense, providing an excellent cost benefit ratio on installations.

For more information, visit the JUDO and Autofine products pages.