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Water Use
Water use for a typical laboratory is as follows:
Cooling Tower Make-up = 42 percent
Sanitary = 12 percent
Single Pass Cooling Water = 5 percent
Irrigation = 4 percent
Sterilizer = 3 percent
Boiler Feed = 2 percent
Reverse Osmosis Reject = 2 percent
Misc. HVAC/Mechanical Room = 5 percent
Laboratory Processes = 25 percent
Water use for a typical office building is as follows:
Sanitary = 40 percent
Cooling Tower Make-up water = 26 percent
Irrigation = 22 percent
Miscellaneous = 9 percent
Single-Pass Cooling = 1 percent
Kitchen = 1 percent