This article is from page 20 of the 2013-08-13 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 20 JPG
AN EAST Clare manufacturing company has begun lobbying the Government to provide grant assistance for water conservation in domestic homes next year when the home insulation grants finish.
RainSavers, a Tuamgraney company that builds and installs the world’s only rain water recovery units that pumps water of drinking quality back into the home, believes that the system will not only save householders on their water charges but will also take pressure off local authority water supplies.
Denis Sheehy, Director of RainSavers, said, with the onset of domestic water charges next year, he feels now is the time for Government to make such a commitment.
“It actually benefits county councils massively because at the moment the councils’ municipal water supplies are over stretched. What has happened is housing has increased drastically but the infrastructure to provide water to houses hasn’t.
“We believe that if the county council would consider grant aiding rainwater recovery within urban areas then there would be an enormous reduction on the municipal supply systems, thus allowing the present infrastructure to return within optimum operating capacity and reducing the cost on local authorities,” he said.
He said the system, which retails at approximately € 4, 500 would also benefit the householder and pay for itself in four years. “Of a standard 2,000 square foot house with four people occupancy, one of our systems would supply enough water for that house for the year. What the house would only be using is the standard charge and their free water usage, they should not be going above that at all in a year,” he said.