Reduce the sewage!
Our water companies regularly dump raw sewage in rivers and say they have no alternative when it rains heavily - rainfall mixed with waste water from households overloads the system, something which is only supposed to happen on rare occasions but in practice happened 400,000 times last year.
Now there are calls for tougher restrictions on  developers, limiting their ability to connect new homes to sewers and requiring new homes to meet water efficiency standards.
There are also many ways that regulations on new houses could make a big difference. Using grey water from clothes and dishwashing to flush toilets, or from rainwater collected in tanks underground, would help.
Philip Dunne, MP, has put forward a bill to give water companies a duty to reduce pollution into UK rivers.
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We are now urgently looking for a few houses to survey so we can publicise a meeting soon, with some local examples to demonstrate what the camera can do.
roof insulation and a free replacement heating system. If you are in this situation contact Derbyshire Dales District Council Customer Services on 01629 761 100. If you know someone likely to be in this situation, please give them this information. (Other grants are in the pipeline.)
Priority end uses for low-carbon hydrogen are defined as sectors where electrification is challenging and hydrogen-fired tech is rapidly becoming mature. Refineries is the top priority, followed by international shipping and steelmaking. Long-haul aviation, high-temperature heating, long-haul trucks, ferries and trains also fall into the high-priority category.
at the eaves all around my bungalow.
