Leak Detection and Reporting
Make it quick for anyone on campus to report leaking taps, broken pipes and overflowing tanks.
Green Campus Process Innovation · Group 5 · Valley View University
Every Drop Counts. Let's Build a Water Smart Campus.
How low-cost process innovation can reduce water wastage on campus, starting with VVU WaterWatch.
Focus area: Water conservationApplication: VVU WaterWatchStatus: Student project proposal
Water wastage is a process problem, and processes can be redesigned.
A dripping tap or an overflowing tank rarely looks urgent on its own. Across a whole campus, and over weeks before anyone reports it, small losses add up to real water, energy and maintenance costs.
Why conservation matters
Treated water is pumped, stored and paid for. Every litre lost to a leak has already cost money and energy to deliver.
How wastage affects operations
Unreported leaks raise utility bills, damage buildings and can interrupt supply to hostels and washrooms.
Why everyone has a role
The people who use taps every day notice problems first. A trusted way to report turns everyone into an early warning system.
How process innovation helps
Instead of expensive new infrastructure, WaterWatch changes how problems are found, fixed and measured.
Project objectives
What Group 5 set out to do, and how the website reports progress against each aim.
Measure the baseline
Record water use at selected campus points for at least three days, with a stated method and unit.
Find where water is lost
Identify hotspots through observation and interviews with Estates/Facilities staff and at least five students.
Make reporting easy
Give everyone on campus a quick way to report leaks, broken pipes, overflowing tanks and faulty taps or flushes.
Close the loop
Track each report through to a recorded conservation action, with a responsible team and an outcome.
Prove what changed
Compare pilot readings with the baseline at the same locations, and show savings only where the evidence supports them.
Four areas of water conservation
One programme, four habits that reinforce each other across hostels, classrooms, kitchens and grounds.
Responsible Water Usage
Encourage everyday habits that avoid unnecessary consumption without reducing comfort.
Water Consumption Monitoring
Record verified readings so improvements can be measured against a clear baseline.
Campus Conservation Awareness
Work with the SRC to keep conservation visible through signage, sensitisation and recognition.
WaterWatch at a glance
Figures from the reports and water readings recorded during the project. Impact that has not been measured is never estimated.
Water hotspots identified
Water issues reported
Issues resolved
Estimated water saved
From a dripping tap to a measured improvement
How WaterWatch works, in five steps that give every problem an owner and a record.
Identify water wastage
Students and staff notice leaks, overflows or unnecessary usage.
Report the problem
Submit a short report, anonymously if preferred, and receive a reference number.
Record and investigate
Estates and Facilities reviews the report, confirms the location and assigns it.
Implement corrective action
Repairs and water saving actions are recorded with cost and responsible team.
Measure improvements
Pilot readings are compared with the baseline to confirm what actually changed.
See the problem through the eyes of the campus
Video 1, our problem documentary: observations, interviews and everyday experiences of water on campus.
Read the researchMoments from the field
Fieldwork, interviews, ideation and the pilot, documented as the project unfolds. View the full gallery.
Help Us Protect Every Drop.
Make a personal commitment to conserve water on campus. It takes less than a minute.
Submit a Water Conservation Pledge