Division Specific water consumption levels associated with the best available techniques (BAT-AEPLs)
United Kingdom
The environmental performance levels related to specific water consumption refer to yearly averages calculated using the following equation:
where:
water consumption activity rate
total amount of water consumed by the activities carried out in the plant excluding recycled and reused water, cooling water used in once-through cooling systems, as well as water for domestic-type usage, expressed in l/year or m3/year;
total amount of products processed by the plant or plant throughput expressed in the appropriate unit depending on the sector (e.g. m2 of coated coil/year, vehicles coated/year, thousand cans/year).