WATER MANAGEMENT OPTIONS – PORTFOLIOS FOR SAFE WATER UTILIZATION IN BUILDINGS

„There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people
- and the environment - suffer badly” This was presented in the World Water Vision Report from 2015 at it leads us to think about sustainble management options. The main aim of this article is to introduce a concept of water management portofolios to give as much as possible information to customer to change his thinking to sustainable water solution even when they are not so cost effective, while building or reconstructing his house.

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