More people growth and in migration

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Making Water Work for Kent
Pete Raine Director Strategic Planning
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Impact of ODPM growth area targets - more and
changing households
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Kent household water consumption
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Water supply/demand balance
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Indicative flood areas - 50 year forecast
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Flooding problems
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Domestic efficiency measures

• New build
• Retrofit
• Metering
• Rainwater/greywater harvesting
• Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS)
• Demand management tactics

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Industrial efficiency measures
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Water companies role

• Statutory duty to supply
• Leakage control
• Metering
• Education - promotion of water efficiency
• Optimising existing assets
• New resources - Bewl, Broadoak, desalination

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Key issues

• We live in a desert
• We behave as if we live in a lake
• Water is too cheap
• No-one has strategically gripped the question