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How much rainfall does it take to fill a water butt from a downpipe? Water is a finite resource, and yet the demand for everyday use continues to grow. Collecting rainwater from your roof is an easy and smart way of reusing free water. Water butts are an excellent way to store water for later use in gardens. With the price of mains water increasing, if you want to be sure you can care for your garden during the summer months, water butts are an obvious choice. Rainwater Harvesting Calculator UK …

Upstream water attenuation is part of a range of solutions to flooding, even better if it can be combined with wildlife friendly gardening. In this first in a series of blog posts about Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) we look at the role of Rain Gardens in Flood Mitigation. The term “Rain Garden” has changed over the years. Technically it has always been just one aspect of the design of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and referred to a type of soft landscaping that slows the …