Riverside Country Park save 10,956 litres of water a day
Riverside Country Park received funding from our Business Partnership Fund to help install a rainwater tank, saving water in their toilets.
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3,998,940 litres of water saved a year
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£31,116 project grant
Rainwater harvesting
The popular visitor centre at the Riverside Country Park in Gillingham, Kent, is used by lots of people walking, birding, cycling, jogging or walking their dogs, so the loos are flushed many times every day. To save water, Riverside applied to our Business Partnership Fund to be able to install a tank that collects rainwater from the roof’s gutters. The 2,350 litre tank is used for the toilets instead of tap water, giving the country park a sustainable way to save water.
It took two weeks to install the innovative system, which automatically pumps the rainwater through to fill the cisterns of both the ladies and men’s toilets, the disabled toilet and the staff toilet. When the water tank is empty, the system simply switches over to use water from their main water supply. They’ve even found a way to use excess water run-off from the gutter system, to water the park’s bee garden during drier months of the year.
Danielle Bowen, Riverside’s Country Park Manager said:
Southern Water’s Business Partnership Fund sponsorship of a rainwater harvesting system for Riverside Country Park is providing the park with the chance to reduce water usage, teach the public about water saving strategies and overall enables us to have a greater impact in fighting climate change.
With hotter summers and less rainfall, as well as a growing population in the South East, there’s increased pressure on our water supplies. Kimberley Turnbull, Water Efficiency Manager at Southern Water, said:
Water is one of our most precious resources. The Southern Water Business Partnership Fund is an innovative scheme aiming to promote water efficiency in our region and find new ways to save water.