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Water
Efficiency Advice
Mid Kent Water is working hard to stay in
touch with its customers needs.
Business bulletin is
a bi-monthly update for our key-customers, keeping you
informed of the latest news from Mid Kent Water and the
water industry.
In OFWATs Overall Performance Assessment
for 2004/05 Mid Kent Water is now 5th equal in the league
table out of all 23 water companies in England & Wales
Key Data
mid kent water:
Operates
over 100 boreholes across Kent .
Delivers around 170,000,000
litres of water
a day.
Supplies a population of 600,000.
Did you know that mid
kent water offers a range of other water related
services to its customers including:
Water Audit of private networks,
Operation & Maintenance of Water and
Wastewater Plant,
Water Consultancy,
Fisheries Management and Consultancy?
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Drought 2006
 Water
resourses continue to be under stress due to lack
of recharge during the autumn period. The winter period
has also started poorly with cold, snowy conditions prevailing
again giving little recharge benefit.
Mid Kent Water is in liaison with all
neighbouring water providers and relevant organisations,
co-ordinating a collective approach to the issue. Regular
updates and visits will be undertaken as the situation unfolds.
As part of a desire to jointly work in
improving water efficiency understanding we will be offering
a 1 day visit by a plumber/audit technician. It is hoped
this will offer focus to further reducing, or at least restraining
growth in overall consumption.
Particular customers may also benefit from
investment in storage and this will also be considered during
the visit.
Please review our
news feed for regular information updates.
Kent County Council
 Mid
Kent Water (MKW) are working in partnership with the
Kent County Council (KCC) to encourage understanding
and awareness of the necessity to promote prudent use
of the finite resource – water.
An interesting fact – 97%
of the worlds’ water is saline, 2% is locked in the
ice caps, 1% is available for all humanity's needs.
As part of a concerted
effort to reduce leakage and wastage in schools, a benchmarking
exercise has been undertaken with high, per capita consumption,
sites targeted. Water audits have been undertaken by MKW,
with individual reports compiled on appropriate water efficiency
measures that can be cost effectively implemented.
This activity will
be widened to include all KCC buildings, parks and grounds
during the coming months/years in order to reduce overall
consumption by 10% within 3 years.
Online Water Consumption data
for Key Customers
 Mid
Kent Water is committed to providing the highest
quality services and
information to our commercial customers.
As part of this ongoing
development programme we have invested in new equipment,
embracing the latest GSM technology and logger capability.
This will allow virtual
real time access to water consumption data. The readings
are taken every 15 minutes allowing compilation of meaningful
profiles showing both daytime and nightime consumption.
The nightime consumption providing the 'nightline' giving
a base consumption.
(The nightline is the
line on the graph of water consumption that usually indicates
lowest water use)
Understanding these profiles,
at times of least business activity, allows a better understanding
of whether leakage and/or wastage are taking place.
All of this aids a focused
approach towards additional water efficiency investment
measures in both process and financial terms.
This facility is soon
to be available to customers with 'Cello' or Xilog
water meters. Should you be interested in registering for
this new service or arranging for the installation of a
suitable metering system, please contact us through dws@midkent.co.uk.
All Metered Commercial
Customers are able to access their historical water consumption
data online and are able to view this data as a graph or
table. see http://consumption.midkentwater.com
Competition in the Water Industry
On 1st December 2005
Ofwat introduced the next step in wider water competition
in England and Wales. As part of the Water Act
2003 business users using at least 50,000 m3 of
water annually can now choose their supplier. A
small number of new suppliers have already emerged and
it is expected that more will come into the market in
the fullness of time.
Customers in the Mid Kent
Water area who are eligible have already been contacted,
and further information is available from Mid Kent Water’s
web site at www.midkentwater.co.uk/services/index.htm with
a link to our Access Code.
Ofwat has also published
information for business users at:
http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat/publish.nsf/Content/WSL.
Mid Kent Water continues
to work closely with all its customers and strives to develop
mutually beneficial relationships with business customers. If
you would like to find out more please visit the web site
by
clicking here.
Or call Mike Cole on 01634
873182
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