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Saving grey water at home

August 18, 2010
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Saving water we would usually tip away is paying dividends in two ways: it’s cutting out water bill and helping our garden vegetables to flourish.

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Chickens in the ice and snow

January 10, 2010
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We’ve had snow and freezing temperatures for three weeks now, but the chickens don’t seem to have noticed. They’re lucky: they’re not the ones that have to head out with a kettle to defrost their waterer.

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Water recycling… extreme

November 14, 2008

Nasa is putting the rest of us to shame. I think we’re pretty good at conserving water at home, but it works on a whole different scale when you’re in orbit.

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The Butt Butt water butt

January 19, 2008

It’s weeks like this when you wish you had more than one water butt. Rain, rain and more rain, with only a slight respite on Monday. If you could somehow catch it all you’d be watering for free until June. I’ve got one butt at the back of the outhouse, and I have another one [...]

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The price of clean dishes

January 14, 2008

In November last year, dishwasher manufacturer Bosch got its wrists slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for claims made in one of its adverts. Running one of its fully-loaded dishwashers, it said, used less water than washing by hand. Or, to use the ad’s exact wording, ‘Did you know that washing up by hand [...]

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Free water saving kit

December 29, 2007

Essex is the driest county in the United Kingdom, importing more than half of its water from neighbouring counties. So it’s good to see that Essex and Suffolk Water is doing its bit, offering 7500 customers the opportunity to get their hands on some free water-saving kit, which they’ll even come around a fit entirely [...]

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