Water conservation
Latest news
- August 2007: Government response to consultation on water metering in areas of serious water stress
- July 2007: Communities and Local Government (CLG) have published the Government’s Housing Green Paper - homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable.
Water is a precious natural resource and its sustainable management is essential to protect the water environment and to meet current and future demand. Population, household size and growth and affluence all affect how much water we use. Factors such as climate change are also likely to put supplies under greater pressure in the future, making it important that we adopt more efficient water use patterns.
Further information
- Defra's proposed performance indicators for local government
See also
- Directgov energy and water saving
- Environment Agency’s save water website
- Environment Agency’s drought website
Page last modified: 5 September 2007
Page published: 4 September 2003