Dacorum Climate Action Network Water Butt Giveaway

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Dacorum Borough Council is giving away 20 water butts to help residents to reduce the amount of water they use from their mains supply and reduce their carbon footprint.

The initiative is organised by the Council’s Dacorum Climate Action Network (Dacorum CAN) which works to encourage and enable residents and local organisations to ‘think global and act local’ to help tackle the climate and ecological emergency, while saving money.

Using a water butt decreases the amount needed from your mains water supply, reducing your carbon footprint and helping to preserve our rare chalk streams and rivers.

What are the benefits of using a water butt?

  • Water butts collect rain water, and therefore provide a source of water during periods of drought
  • Once set up, water butts reduce the financial cost of using fresh water from your mains supply
  • Emissions arise from the processes involved in treating and transporting water to make it suitable for human consumption. Therefore, by reducing the overall usage of water from your mains supply, you are reducing your carbon footprint

Apply to get your free water butt

For your chance to pick up a 100-litre water butt, along with a stand, tap and filler kit, simply register at www.dacorum.gov.uk/dacorumcan. The giveaway is open to all Dacorum residents and will end on Tuesday 21 March 2023.

Winners will be chosen at random on Wednesday 22 March 2023, and will need to collect their prize from B&Q, Two Waters Rd, Hemel Hempstead HP3 9BX by 4pm on Sunday 26 March 2023.

Discover your own water footprint and make savings

Affinity Water, (one of Hertfordshire’s water suppliers) has launched the next phase of its award-winning Save Our Streams (SOS) initiative, which aims to make sustainable water usage second nature.

The campaign includes a bespoke water usage calculator tool to allow customers to understand their own water footprint, claim free water-saving devices and offer helpful tips of how to reduce their water use.

Click here to see how much water you use and where you could make savings; mywaterfootprint.co.uk

For more information please contact Dacorum Borough Council’s Sustainability team.