Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999
Guidance Document relating to
Schedule 1: Fluid Categories and
Schedule 2: Requirements For Water Fittings
[See Regulation 4(3)]

SECTION 11

Schedule 2: Paragraph 29: Washing machines, dishwashers and other appliances

  1. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), clothes washing machines, clothes washer-driers and dishwashers shall be economical in the use of water.

    (2) The requirements of this paragraph shall be deemed to be satisfied in the case of machines having a water consumption per cycle of not greater than the following-

    1. for domestic horizontal axis washing machines, 27 litres per kilogram of washload for a standard 60°C cotton cycle;
    2. for domestic washer-driers, 48 litres per kilogram of washload for a standard 60°C cotton cycle;
    3. for domestic dishwashers, 4.5 litres per place setting.

Guidance

G28.1   Domestic horizontal axis washing machines should not have a water consumption per cycle greater than 27 litres per kilogram of washload in accordance with Annex 1 of EU Directive 95/12/EC.

G28.2   Domestic washer-driers should not have a water consumption per cycle greater than 48 litres per kilogram of washload in accordance with Annex 1 of EU Directive 99/60/EC.

G28.3   Domestic dishwashers should not have a water consumption per cycle greater than 4.5 litres per place setting in accordance with Annex 1 of EU Directive 97/17/EC.

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Published 22 December 1999
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