Guernsey Water joins Water Saving Week

Guernsey Water is backing a national week-long social media campaign to promote simple water saving tips for the home, garden, schools, workplace and communities.

The company has joined forces with Waterwise and Watersafe for Water Saving Week, which runs from 21– 25 March 2016.

The campaign aims to raise awareness of the need for everyone to use water wisely - whatever the weather and wherever the location - to protect this precious and finite resource for generations to come.

The online campaign will see five themes across the week, all with daily challenges and water saving tips. These include “water in school”, “water in your workplace” and “water in your home”.

For homes, schools and businesses which are on a water meter and pay for the amount of water they use, this can also mean welcome savings on water and on energy saved if less water is being heated up for baths and showers.

And as the campaign coincides with Easter – the traditional time of year gardeners start thinking about this season’s planting and families get out and about – other themes include “water in the garden” and “water in the community”.

Margaret McGuinness, Water Quality Risk Manager at Guernsey Water, said: “Even though we have had a particularly wet period and our water reservoirs are all very full, it is still important to try to encourage people to reduce water waste. 

“Water efficiency is particularly important in an island like Guernsey and we’d really like to encourage everyone to start making small changes. This week is a great incentive to get islanders to think about the way they use water.  This isn’t about restricting water use but thinking about the simple ways you can limit the amount of waste.

“The national campaign has an exciting range of activities to help raise awareness about the need to save water and share simple ideas and tips to help everyone do their bit.”