Towards incentivisation for community-centric rainwater management

Towards incentivisation for community-centric rainwater management

Led by: Thames Water

Partners: Indepen Limited, Our Rainwater Limited, Isle Utilities Limited, South West Water, Anglian Water, Wessex Water

Thames Water has partnered with Anglian Water, South West Water, Indepen, Isle Utilities and Our Rainwater to encourage communities in their regions to adopt rainwater capture tools and solutions, to help prevent rainwater from entering the sewer network. When it rains heavily, excess water runs off people’s homes and driveways and enters the sewer network which can contribute to the network being overwhelmed and lead to surface water flooding, sewer flooding and sewage discharges. The project will encourage the widespread adoption of rainwater capture methods at a grass roots level. It will test and measure how communities can be incentivised to take up these measures and help protect the environment.

“Action is needed to stop rainwater, which doesn’t need to be sent to a sewage works for treatment, getting into the sewers in the first place. We can’t do this alone and this community-led project will help us further reduce the risk of surface water flooding, sewer flooding and pollution.” – Jon Regan, Head of Innovation, Thames Water

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Resources:

For more information on Towards incentivisation for community-centric rainwater management, take a look at the following resources:

• The project won the ‘Regeneration and Retrofit – private properties’ category at the susdrain SuDS Awards 2024
• The foreground IPR developed by this project is the Blueprint for Community Rainwater Management
• The project have produced the following video summarising the project