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Water strategy for 2020 to 2025 This map shows how we'll find the extra water we need to provide reliable water supplies for you and local businesses in the next five years. sle o eppe
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ISLE OF 2 WIGHT Sussex 8. Increase the number of homes with meters from 88% to 92% to encourage savings. 9. Increase the number of homes with meters from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 92% to 100% in the Sussex north zone. 1. Increase the number of homes with meters from 88% 10. Reduce leaks. to 92% to encourage savings and find more leaks. 11. Upgrade a pipe to transfer water from the 2. Reduce leaks. Brighton zone to the Worthing zone. 3. Receive an extra nine million litres of water each day 12. Introduce catchment schemes and take action from Portsmouth Water through an existing pipeline. to protect against nitrates and pesticides at nine 4. Recycle cleaned water from our wastewater treatment water sources in Brighton and Worthing. works in Marchwood to supply an oil refinery. 13. Introduce catchment schemes to protect rivers and 5. Introduce catchment schemes and take a reservoir from pesticides in Sussex North. action to remove nitrates and protect against 14. Apply for drought orders and permits on the River nitrates and pesticides at six water sources Rother, Weir Wood Reservoir and two groundwater in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. sources in the Worthing and Brighton zones to 6. Apply for drought orders on the Rivers Test and continue to abstract water in dry weather. Itchen and on the Candover groundwater source to continue abstracting water in dry weather. 7. Work to improve the Test and Itchen rivers. Water resources management plan - consultation Page 23
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ISLE OF WIGHT Kent Key 15. Reduce leaks. Less than five million litres of water each day. Between five and 50 million litres of water each day. 16. Introduce catchment schemes and take action to protect against nitrates at 14 water sources More than 50 million litres of water each day. in the Thanet and Medway zones. Better use of existing water
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What we'll do across the South East: We will involve you in saving water and reduce personal water use to 100 litres per person per day by 2040. We will help by reading water meters every month, so you can track how much you’re using, and we can find leaks quicker.