Water at the Council

Here at Elmbridge Borough Council we are also doing our bit to save water. During 2006/2007, a group of councillors has been investigating the way that we use water in our own property. This has highlighted lots of good work already going on such as installing giant water butts to catch rainwater for use at recreation grounds and also recommended ways for the Council to use water more wisely.

One of the group's main findings was that the smaller water-saving measures are often the most effective at reducing wastage. Following the councillors' recommendations we have promised to:

• adapt our taps to make them more water efficient.
• install urinal controls throughout the Civic Centre.
• organise an internal publicity campaign for our staff to raise awareness of water efficiency.
• give thorough consideration to rainwater harvesting and greywater harvesting schemes at future Council developments.

We have also set ourselves a challenging target to reduce our water use by almost 25% by 2009.

For full details, including the group's findings and recommendations, please see the |Water Efficiency Task Groups Report.