We are proud to provide a sustainable, affordable, clean and safe water supply and to manage and treat the waste water returned to us in a way that protects the environment.
01/07/2008
Water users concerned about energy use and climate change can now find out their own carbon footprint at the click of a button.
Every drop of water wasted also wastes the energy used to treat and deliver it and treat it again when it is disposed of.
Essex and Suffolk Water’s on-line carbon calculator measures the CO2 produced from the water supplied to the home and treated after it has been used.
More information is featured in Essex and Suffolk Water’s Source magazine which will drop on the doormats of more than six hundred thousand households over the coming weeks.
Carolyn King, of Essex and Suffolk Water said: “More than six hundred thousand copies of our customer magazine, ‘Source’, are being distributed to customers over the coming weeks.
“The magazine covers a variety of interesting and informative topics, including climate change and details of how to use our new online carbon calculator which will help you identify where at home you use the most water and how water can be saved.”
Customers will also learn more about Essex and Suffolk Water’s:
• Promise to You - the company’s guaranteed standards scheme.
• Back to tap – a campaign to encourage restaurants to serve tap water.
• Looking to the future – setting out the companies long term aspirations.
• Special offers available on water saving butts.
• There is also a chance to win a Kielder getaway for you and your family in a luxurious Kielder cabin in Northumberland.
Among articles covered in the magazine is a report on a recent fact-finding mission to Burkina Faso, Africa, the second poorest country in the world where there are at least seven million people that have no clean water, and only one and a half million have access to adequate sanitation. The trip was to raise the profile of the charity WaterAid – Essex and Suffolk Water’s adopted charity which provides clean water, sanitation and hygiene education for people in Africa and Asia.
Carolyn added: “We turn on the tap and take top quality drinking water for granted. We flush the toilet and know that what comes naturally is treated safely out of sight out of mind. For billions of people in the world these basic human rights are sadly a matter of life and death.”
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For further information please contact Carolyn King on 0191 301 6722.