Water: Conservation

(asked on 19th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to encourage the collection, storage and use of rainwater in (a) commercial and (b) residential properties.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 26th June 2018

The 25 Year Environment Plan sets out our ambitions to improve water efficiency. We have committed to work with the water industry to agree what cost effective measures, including rainwater storage, are required to improve water efficiency for both commercial and residential properties.

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