The focus of this year’s Water Saving Week will be about the cost of living crisis and the role of hot water in energy bills and carbon footprint, and issues around water such as the increased stress on water resources resulting from climate change and our habits. Learn more at waterwise.
From waterwise Defra, the Environment Agency and Ofwat have written to the chairs of the five regional water resource planning groups in England to confirm that they expect the groups to continue and deliver a further round of regional multi-sector water resource planning. The regulators highlight the benefits of working beyond company boundaries, optimising water […]
Press release from Waterwise: 24th August 2022 Influential campaigning organisation Waterwise has released its Strategic Direction to 2030, setting out how urgent water efficiency is, how progress has stalled, and how as the UK’s conscience on water efficiency Waterwise can help the UK get back on track. Waterwise highlights the challenge we face in the […]
Waterwise has published its draft water efficiency strategy for consultation. The document sets out a cross-sector strategy to deliver greater water efficiency in the UK by 2030, including: Why water demand needs to reduce – so everyone has an understanding of the challenges faced across the UK. The objectives to achieve by 2030 – 10 […]
Looking for a challenge this January? Take part in our ‘Save 2022 litres in 2022’ pledge! This may sound like a lot, but what if we told you that you could save this much water in just ONE month? Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean avoiding showers or not doing your laundry! Every day of this […]
As part of growing efforts to deliver greater water savings to business water users Thames Water has just shared a great open access online water benchmarking tool. The tool has been designed to provide a water use benchmark for hotels, hospitality, leisure, offices, retail, schools and university halls. Users input some basic details of their […]
Urgent call to put water efficiency at centre of climate crisis action An urgent call to action has been raised to get the country back on track reducing demand for water across England, not only to tackle the growing national water deficit (around four billion litres of water a day by 2050), but also to support […]
Waterwise launches revamp of UK water efficiency strategy Waterwise, the leading authority on water efficiency in the UK, is launching a new consultation on the 5 year Water Efficiency Strategy for the UK which comes to an end in June 2022. Read the review of the 2017-2021 strategy. An online consultation from the 26th July which […]