What Some Restaurants Are Doing to Reduce Water Waste

To reduce water waste, restaurants that normally brought a glass of water to the table, for each customer, may skip that step. The customer can still, typically, receive water if they ask for it.

Restaurants used to always bring each customer a complimentary glass of water to their table. Now some restaurants may not be bothered to serve each customer a complimentary glass of water while others are not serving water to reduce water waste.

A complimentary glass of water doesn’t always get drank. Since it can’t be served to the next customer, due to health regulations, it will likely get dumped down the drain. When a restaurant chooses not to serve a complimentary glass of water, it will reduce water waste. Of course, a customer can always ask for a complimentary glass of water if they desire one.

However, a restaurant can still serve a complimentary glass of water and reduce water waste. For example, the water that the customers don’t drink can be poured into a pitcher to water plants with. A more efficient way to conserve and use the water would be for the restaurant to purchase a few rain barrels to pour the water in. Water from the rain barrels can go to watering plants, shrubs, trees and grass of the restaurant landscape.

A city in desperate need of water during a drought might place restrictions on restaurants that continue to serve complimentary glasses of water. This might include the elimination of serving complimentary water to only serving complimentary glasses when it is specifically asked for by a customer.

If complimentary water is still served during times of drought, a city may decide to call for the water to be placed in rain barrels to be recycled. Half-drank glasses of water or otherwise could also be saved, instead of being dumped down the drain with sewage, to go to the city’s water treatment. This would do away with the step of having to filter excrement and solid matter from the water. The water would likely still be filtered for solid matter, but removing the equation of human waste from the water is seemingly a much cleaner thought.

Health regulations might allow restaurants to bring out a pitcher of water with a lid, so that the water could be reused by other customers if the customers at the given table didn’t use the water. This might also be determined by the severity of drought inflicted upon a city.


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