Resources

This principle is about using water efficiently, protecting local water resources and reducing flooding and drought.

• Everyone to have access to clean drinking water
• Water used efficiently and returned to the environment clean
• Manage water sustainably and reduce the risk and impact of flooding and drought

For example: access to water, reducing demand, water reuse, water treatment, flood risk management, embodied water in products and services and anything else we thing is important.

Water is a very local issue and so demands solutions specific to the particular location. The process of storing, treating and transporting water has a wide range of environmental impacts and a carbon footprint, even in water-rich areas, so it should always be used efficiently.

 Groups in Bruton doing things that contribute to this principle:

• BrueCREW www.bruecrew.org/
• Wessex Water www.wessexwater.co.uk/
• Somerset Rivers Authority www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/

• Refill - an award-winning campaign to prevent plastic pollution at source by making it easier to reuse and refill your bottle instead of buying a new one. Rose and Lyons and Spar are signed up (at July 2019)
• Saving water in the garden (Wessex Water)
• Saving water at home (Wessex Water)
• Free water saving products (Wessex Water)
• Report a leak or call 0800 692 0 692