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It’s hard to believe, when you see how much rain we can get in the South-West, but it is predicted that rainfall will become less in the future. More importantly, peoples consumption keeps on increasing.
It’s worth noting that 1000 litres of water also takes an average of one kilowatt of power to clean and pump to your building.
The government has committed to set targets to limit the average water usage in dwellings for example to 125 litres per occupant.
In order to reach that target, we can take several actions.
Rainwater Harvesting and Grey water systems.
Rainwater harvesting; catching and using the water that falls on your building will directly reduce your bills if you are on a meter.
It may be as simple as diverting rainwater to a butt. However more sophisticated systems will include a store which could be buried underground or just by the side of the building. They have a filter and pump to get the cleaned water to where you need it for say washing machines or toilets.
Remember that the storage tank and pipework need protection from frost.
Grey water systems don’t sound very attractive, but could again save a great deal of water by reusing water that has been used in the building and is no longer fit to drink, but is perfectly good for washing and flushing after simple filtering.
Water efficient equipment.
Rather than recycling what we have wasted, a better way to reduce consumption is to use some of the water efficient equipment available. These include taps which spray rather than pour, toilets with low volume flushes and dual action flushes, waterless urinals, showers without power pumps and automatic flushing systems which operate on a more controlled basis.
Our plumbers can install any of these systems as retrofit or in new builds or extensions to your property.
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