The United States Environmental Protection Agency predicts that 36 states in the U.S. will be facing some sort of water shortage within five years. Hotel studies have shown that a hotel guest room can use up to 200 gallons of fresh water every day.
In recent years, we have seen more hotels try to promote
water conservation using various methods. Most hotels ask that you try to reuse your towels if you are staying multiple days, only dropping them on the floor to let the maid know you would like a new towel, please... Washing less towels means less laundry and thus less water use.
One of the other areas where hotels use a lot of water, is in cleaning the rooms and bathrooms. Most traditional steam cleaners use gallons of water a minute and cleaning solvents to get guest rooms back to looking like new. An innovative new cleaning solution by
Amerivap Systems uses only quarts of water per hour instead of gallons per minute and also does not use any chemicals. It's called dry steam vapor. This technology uses steam in temperatures that kills virtually all bacteria with only a 5% moisture level. One of greatest features that hotels love about this type of cleaning is its cigarette smelling killing ability. The device can even be used to significantly reduce the cigarette smell in guest rooms by removing the nicotine from the walls.
