Water Efficiency and Management in Green Building: A Review

Abstract

Water is the most important compound worldwide for life support and other varied human activities. The shortage for these specific activities demands the need for air, river, waste and water disposal, reservation and transportation to produce portable water. These studies were planned to assess the value of water conservation and quality, and the level of distribution of criteria and points through green building ranking systems. When groups, criteria and distribution of points were evaluated for ranking schemes. The analysis reveals that water is a significant category because it is included in all rating schemes and within the rating schemes have appreciable criteria and the allocation level. The difference in rank, criteria, and points distribution is focused on the social, cultural, and environmental interests of all stakeholders of the different countries. The Green Ship and Green Star SA 's highest parameters and points indicate the need for effective water production and delivery throughout the society as well as the house. While in Green Mark and BEAM is due to lack of enough fresh water for daily activities as well as building construction. As a consequence of developments in renewable water production and delivery in the respective countries, the lowest in the BREEAM, Green Star NZ and LEED has been. The study harmonized criteria included the whole sustainable building environment evaluation in terms of water supply, delivery, and use for countries establishing ranking schemes.