Hose Pipe Ban
Hosepipe restrictions remain
in place following the dry winter.
click
here for more details
Click here for our latest
Drought Bulletin
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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River Darent
The effects of 2 successive dry
winters are taking their toll on the flow in the
river Darent.
It
is running at an exceptionality low level and is being
augmented by the Environment Agency abstracting from
boreholes along the valley within the local area. This
has proved necessary because otherwise the river would
already have dried up.
The western catchment has only received approximately
60% of the long term average rainfall and aquifer recharge
has been correspondingly poor. Recent rainfall has been
very welcome, however no further recharge will occur
until the autumn as plants and trees will now absorb
the summer precipitation.
Click
here for a review of previous work carried
out to alleviate low flow in the river Darent.
Canterbury City Council
 MKW and Canterbury City Council are working closely together
to overcome the worst impacts of the drought on flower displays and recreational
use. Utilisation of a private borehole source and re-cycling grey water will
allow the displays and facilities to flourish, whilst drought restrictions
are imposed elsewhere.
The key to gaining public understanding comes from a joint PR campaign highlighting
the environmental benefits.
Commercial Business Plumbing Surveys
A series of plumbing surveys have been undertaken for
key customers following an initial drought discussion
consultation. The activity is offered to those businesses
with high nightline or unaccounted for consumption.
 Results to date indicate that
many systems are not operating efficiently or indeed
the way that they were designed to work. This is particularly
noticeable with respect to urinal controls, which unless
PIR operated often waste excessive volumes of water.
Softening or specific
quality requirements is another area where efficiencies
can be low, particularly associated with the backwash
facility.
Perhaps the major issue is the lack of sub metering,
which would allow far better understanding of where the
water is being used.
Click here to see our new commercial
water efficiency link
If you are interested in a plumbing
survey please contact mike.cole@midkent.co.uk
How Can Your Business Save Water ?
 Mid
Kent Water's drought pages now have a section providing
advice and suggestions for water saving within the
business environment.
This advice has been part prepared
with the assistance of Broadfern an Energy Cost Control
business, and our own experience having carried out
a significant number of water audits for local businesses.
See: How Can Your Business Save Water
?
If you have any hints and tips for
water saving, please feel free to share them with us.
Click here for some of the comments
we made during the Water Audits
The image shows the flyer for the
Water
Efficiency Awards 2007 sponsored by the
environment agency.
If you are making active changes to
save water, why not apply! If you are considering applying,
please feel free to contact us, we may be able to assist!
Water Scarcity – Folkestone & Dover Water
Company
 The Secretary of State for the Environment
announced in March the decision to award Water
Scarcity Status to Folkestone and Dover Water Services:
Folkestone & Dover Water Services (FDWS) argued
that its area is the driest in England and Wales, and
it had considered a number of options for reducing
demand in its area. It also demonstrated that
a metering campaign in the early nineties had a significant
impact on reducing demand from its customers.
As well as the pressure for development in the area,
FDWS also pointed to other factors which are likely
to maintain a high level of demand, or bring further
increases, including the delayed closure of Dungeness
Power Station, likely expansion of the Port of Dover
and a population increase with the new high speed rail
link to London.
The Water Scarcity Status is a long
term view – FDWS
already has approximately 45% of domestic properties
metered and now, with the benefit of this status, plans
to increase the number of domestic properties on meters
to 90% by 2015.
Drought Bulletin
Mid Kent Water are now providing a regular
drought information bulletin. This is being sent to users
electronically as a regular monthly update. Subscribers
will also be informed of any relevant changes in the
drought situation.
Click on the links below to:
Enviro Wise
Envirowise offers UK businesses free,
independent, confidential advice and support on practical
ways to increase profits, minimise waste and reduce environmental
impact.
The following has been taken from the water section of
the envirowise website
Water is an increasingly expensive resource with mains,
sewerage and trade effluent charges all rising. Reducing
your water consumption is one of the easiest and most
inexpensive ways to achieve cost savings - just taking
simple measures can cut figures by 50%.
Envirowise will help you identify ways to minimise water
use by understanding where waste occurs in your business
and how to reduce it.
For more information on specific water-related
issues in your business sector, and to discover how Envirowise
can help you, click
here to access their water page.
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