Reduce your water consumption costs today with science
At WATERGATER, we develop water valves that are guaranteed to reduce your metered water consumption by reducing air volume.
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Consider the path water travels to get to your property.
It starts at a reservoir or water tower, where it's channeled into city water mains, under immense pressure. From here the water travels through pumping stations, intersecting water lines, increases and decreases in elevation and temperature, all of which builds turbulence in your water in the form of air and water vapor bubbles.
By the time water reaches your meter, as much as 40% of the volume within could be in the form of air, attributed to this turbulence.
It is important to understand that your water meter is a flow meter in that it measures volume not contents. This is to say that as long as something is moving through your water line, be it water, gas or debris, your meter will read the line as being full.
Once installed on the property side of the water meter, WATERGATER valves create a compression zone of laminar flow that extends up to 200 feet back, through your meter. This compression zone prevents air/water mixture in its uncompressed form from entering your water meter.
The result can be measured in reduced consumption by volume, since you will only be billed for water, not air.
Watergater valves function on the principles of Boyle's Law, which observes the relationship between pressure and volume. As air enters the compression zone created by the valve, it becomes compressed by volume. The water meter only reads the volume of the water passing through (rather than water and air). After passing through a Watergater valve, the air-water combination returns to a normal state of regulated pressure in your home.
With installations all over the world, Watergater valves are helping businesses of all sizes manage their water consumption costs across various types of industry. We work with our clients from assessment to installation in order to ensure that every Watergater valve is doing as effective a job as possible. Calibrated to the demands of various applications globally, our commercial/industrial valves are only available installed by authorized technicians in order to maintain quality and customer satisfaction.
After years of helping industry reduce water consumption costs, we have developed a low cost, residential offering of our valves called the Minigater Water Valve. Designed to manage residential water pressure of 40 PSI or greater, every Minigater valve fits a 3/4" water line, and comes with an adapter ring to fit 1" water lines. Save up to 25% on your water consumption costs with an innovative flow management system that can be installed in less than 30 minutes.