… is important, because heating hot water, and processing all water uses a large amount of energy, resulting in carbon emissions. Wasting water is also a waste of money for the majority of local residents, public bodies and businesses who are on meters. Statistics and key Information ‰ Water consumption is at its highest for both Authorities in its swimming pools at leisure centre’s, the street sweeping…
… process and at Depot vehicle washing facilities. When improvements are carried out to these, and other buildings, water conservation/reuse should be considered. ‰ The UK average water consumption per person per day is about 150 litres. The Government’s Water Strategy aims to reduce this to 130 litres per person/day by 2020 and this strategy supports this aim. Bromsgrove’s Draft Core Strategy…
… is considering using 105 litres/person/day for new developments. ‰ However, these figures are not a true representation of our water usage, these figures represent how much clean drinking water we use via taps, toilets, bathing and using the washing machine for example. ‰ Realistically, we each use about 4645 litres per day, that’s the same as 50 baths of water. Water is embedded in the products that we…