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The Government wants 3 million new affordable homes to be built by 2020, at a rate of a quarter of a million a year. Ensuring these new homes are designed to save water should be a vital consideration.
The recently published Code for Sustainable Homes goes some way to cut down the amount of water used in the home. But it is still only a voluntary code and only covers homes, not commercial or business premises.
Save the Rain™ is campaigning for rainwater harvesting to be compulsory in all new builds within the next three years and for grants to bo be available for rainwater harvesting equipment for homes now - just like grants for loft insulation. Sadly, unless the legislation is changed to make it easier and cheaper, the process will be too slow.
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The UK RHA has given its full support to Save the Rain™.
Roger Budgeon of the UK RHA said: "On behalf of the UK Rainwater Harvesting Association, it gives me very great pleasure to welcome this far-sighted and much needed initiative. Quite apart from the parts of the country experiencing a water-supply deficit, a great deal of energy is currently wasted in bringing water that is destined for toilet-flushing up to drinking water standard. Widespread use of harvested rainwater as an integral part of our national water management policy therefore makes sound environmental and economic sense."