Analyzing Your Spend: The Water Cost Breakdown Report
Go beyond volume and see the financial impact of your water usage. This is a deep dive into the Water Cost Breakdown report, a key feature of the Augos platform. It provides a clear, hierarchical view of your water costs, showing which specific areas are driving your bill. Explore our full Water Efficiency solution.
The Purpose of Cost Breakdown in Water Management
The Water Cost Breakdown report is a powerful financial transparency tool within our complete Water Efficiency & Loss Prevention solution. While a Consumption Breakdown shows how much water you're using, the Cost Breakdown shows how much that water is costing you. It achieves this by applying your specific local tariffs to consumption data from every meter, giving you a precise financial map of your usage across your entire site.
Gain Essential Financial Transparency
For finance teams, this tool provides unparalleled oversight of bill components. You can instantly see which departments, processes, or buildings are driving the greatest cost impact, eliminating ambiguity and enabling data-driven financial management and more accurate budgeting.
Strategically Target Efficiency Improvements
For facility and operations managers, this report is a strategic guide. By highlighting the highest-cost areas, it allows you to target your efficiency efforts—like equipment upgrades or process changes—where they will deliver the most significant and immediate return on investment.
How the Cost Breakdown Process Works
Our platform transforms your consumption data into financial intelligence in a seamless, automated process.
Measure Consumption Across Your Site
The process starts by collecting accurate water consumption data (in kL or m³) from every Augos metering point within your system, from main incomers to individual sub-meters.
Apply Your Active Tariff Structure
Our platform automatically converts these consumption volumes into monetary costs by applying your site's active, configured local water tariff structure in real-time.
Display Costs in a Clear Hierarchy
The calculated costs and their percentage shares are displayed in a hierarchical model that mirrors your site's physical layout (e.g., Site Total -> Building A -> Floor 1 -> Cooling Tower).
Analyze and Identify Cost Drivers
Using the interactive report, you can easily drill down to compare areas, identify the biggest cost contributors, and pinpoint where your water budget is truly being spent.