Water is one of the highest operating costs for hotels/motels. When you add it all up, a mid-size hotel property can push through hundreds of thousands of gallons of water every single month.
The challenge is that most of that usage feels unavoidable. You cannot ask guests to skip showers, and you cannot let the pool drop below code. The bills come in, you pay them, and the cycle repeats.
What rarely gets examined is whether the water flowing through your system is being measured accurately in the first place. And for most hotels, it is not.
What Your Water Meter Is Actually Recording
A problem shared by most hotels in the USA goes largely unaddressed: your location’s water meters aren’t measuring water alone. They’re recording a mixture of water and air, and every cubic inch of that air is billed at the same rate as water. This isn’t a billing mistake, it’s simply how unregulated water pressure behaves inside a building’s plumbing. And it is costing American businesses and property managers thousands of dollars every single year.
Unregulated pressure in the municipal water supply can cause air bubbles to form in a building’s plumbing system. Those bubbles travel through the pipes and pass through the meter, where they register as water. The meter is not broken; it simply cannot distinguish between air and water. But the result is a water bill that consistently reflects more than actual consumption.
What the SMART VALVE™ Does
The Smart Valve™ is a patented, precision-engineered flow management device installed on the customer’s side of the water meter. It eliminates the air measurement problem at the source, regulates pressure surges, and ensures your meter records only what you genuinely consume. The outcome is a measurable, guaranteed reduction in your water bill, typically between 15% and 35%.
01 — Eliminates Excess Air Volume
The Smart Valve™ maintains constant back pressure that prevents excess air from entering your water system. Air that would otherwise be measured and charged as water is stopped before it ever reaches the meter.
02 — Regulates Water Pressure
Its proprietary variable spring-loaded technology smooths out the peaks and valleys in water pressure that naturally occur in commercial plumbing systems. The result is a consistent, even flow, the foundation of accurate metering.
03 — Precise Pressure Calibration
Every Smart Valve™ is calibrated to the optimal pressure level for the specific building it serves. This is made possible by patented, adjustable valve technology, not a one-size-fits-all setting, but a precision adjustment tailored to your system.
04 — Secondary Backflow Prevention
The Smart Valve™ functions as a secondary backflow preventer, providing an added layer of protection for the municipal water supply. This compliance and infrastructure benefit comes standard with every installation.
05 — Universal Meter Compatibility
The Smart Valve™ is compatible with over 99% of all water meters currently in use across the United States, whether your building runs an older mechanical meter or a modern digital unit.
With the Smart Valve™ installed on the customer’s side of the meter, city pressure is maintained upstream past the meter and into the municipal main. Air bubble volume is suppressed before reaching the meter. Only actual water consumption is recorded. Your bill finally reflects reality.
American Water Savings conducts a detailed analysis of your historical water usage to determine whether your hotel/motel property qualifies for at least 15% savings. Properties that qualify generally have monthly water and sewage costs of $4,000 or more. All savings are validated using actual utility billing data.
