Environmental Consultancy
Lydia’s favourite game to ‘test your watersense’ on …with Flo the water droplet, the hero of the hour, being followed around by the baddies and water-wasterers ‘Sogosaurus’, ‘Drip drip’, ‘Swirly’ and ‘Drainiac’! Play the game (Also American)
‘Watch Gabi rap We oughta save water! Watch
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ech2o were funded by SusCon to carry out a series of workshops in the SEEDA region with Housing Association or Local Authority tenants. These fun and interactive workshops provided tenants with practical and behaviour change solutions to reduce their water consumption, resulting in lower water and energy bills and reduced CO2 emissions.
Both these technologies use the sun’s energy to provide a source of sustainable power, are easy to retrofit (either as part of a sustainable refurbishment or to install in new buildings), and provide an income for the building occupiers. The
Focussing on one particular case study (a six bedroom house in the countryside), Cath talks you through the steps that were needed to ensure that an actual sustainable water strategy was adopted for the dwelling as opposed to the tick
One of your clients wants solar thermal and asks whether it works with a combi boiler whilst another wants “an enhanced bathing experience” and wonders if a pumped shower or an electric shower is more sustainable. A client in a
Thanks to all these organisations who we have worked with or continue to work with to deliver carbon awareness training in schools and communities.
Bartlett School of Architecture: www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk Dublin Institute of Technology: www.dit.ie The Green Register: www.greenregister.org.uk RIBA South East: www.architecture.com Westminster University: www.westminster.ac.uk
SWIG is the Sustainable Water Industry Group and ech2o are proud to be an inaugural member. As its name suggests it is an interdisciplinary group, with the idea that ‘whole system thinking’ needs to be applied to sustainable water management