Water Companies - How Can We Help You?
We understand the challenges within the industry are multi-faceted, interlinked and complex, requiring smart solutions with long-term impact to improve transparency, increase public trust and exceed regulatory targets.
Find out how we can help you achieve this and more, using our tried and tested process, proprietary technology and expertise in engagement.
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What do we do?
- Problem Identification & Optimisation Modelling
- Community Engagement
- Monitoring
One solution will not tackle all.
To find the best solution, we take a deep dive into your challenges and pinpoint the exact problem. We identify optimal interventions as a solution agnostic organisation, using our own advanced modelling techniques, targeted to your challenges and objectives to tackle sewer spills and surface water flooding.
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Testimonial
Craig Boorman, Principal Environmental Engineer at Thames Water
"At Thames Water, we are looking for innovative ways to manage water sustainably, and the Community Centric Rainwater Management project with Our Rainwater has been standout success, and this is success was recognised by the projects award at CIRIA susdrain awards 2024. The projects initiative allowed us to explore how simple decentralised rainwater management solutions such as waterbutts can enhance resilience, reduce pressure on drainage infrastructure, and empower local communities to take an active role in sustainable water use."
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How do we support water companies?
We want to help you maximise stormwater attenuation and reduce sewer spills, by optimising rainwater management guided by our proprietary modelling technology.
But it doesn't stop there. Our unique approach successfully engages communities bringing countless secondary benefits (find out more about those below), whilst validating projects through real-time monitoring.
This end-to-end approach has been designed to directly target goals set out in:
- Plans for Water 2023
- 2021 Environment Act
- Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans
- Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan 2022
Achieving Regulatory Compliance
We can help you meet stringent environmental standards set by legislation, such as the 2021 Environment Act, the Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan 2022, and the goal of 0 adverse impacts by 2050. Adhering to water quality regulations, including phosphorus and nitrate limits, adds further complexity to compliance efforts.
Using our proprietary technology, we offer advanced modelling and real-time monitoring to ensure your interventions are both precise and impactful. By identifying the most effective solutions and their optimal locations, we help you reduce water flow into drainage systems and minimise combined sewer overflow severity and frequency. Supported further by modelling that improves transparency and accountability.
Reducing Sewer Spills
With data-driven modelling and community engagement programs, we identify high-impact areas for intervention. Designed to reduce the volume of water entering combined drainage systems, helping to reduce sewer overflows and pollution events whilst keeping you ahead of potential fines and demonstrating environmental stewardship.
Supporting Ageing Infrastructure
Tackling the amount of water entering drainage systems will reduce the need for expensive and time-consuming infrastructure upgrades. By reducing operational disruptions and enhancing system efficiency, we provide sustainable solutions that ensure long-term resilience. Our community engagement strategy ensures that householders are part of the solution, reducing the strain on ageing systems.
Improving Customer Trust & Satisfaction
Our projects focus on educating and engaging the community, helping customers understand how their actions impact water systems. This not only improves customer relationships but also fosters a sense of collaboration and responsibility, boosting trust and overall satisfaction with your services. By empowering communities with knowledge, we can drive action and behaviour change.
Water Scarcity & Resource Management
Meeting consumption targets, such as 118 litres per person per day, requires innovation and public involvement. We help you educate communities on sustainable water use and the importance of water resource management.
By engaging householders, promoting water-saving practices and fostering a deeper understanding of the impact of their actions. We're constantly developing tools to enhance householder understanding and help reduce water consumption and sewer misuse.
This approach not only helps achieve sustainability goals but also builds stronger community relationships by involving the public in water conservation efforts.
Testimonial
Working with Our Rainwater, we were able to implement a scalable approach to capturing, storing, and reusing rainwater within urban environments. Their expertise in rainwater harvesting, combined with a deep understanding of community needs and the most effective methods of community engagement, provided us with the learning and insight into the reasons why customers currently don’t capture their rainwater, and what we can do to help change their mind and their neighbours.
Operational Efficiency
High operational costs and the need for frequent infrastructure upgrades place significant pressure on resources. Our cost-effective, project-based approach promotes community action and long-term sustainability. By harnessing data-driven insights and engaging communities, we help you reduce operational costs while fostering innovation.
We're constantly developing innovative approaches to empower communities. Enabling them to manage rainwater more effectively, whist keeping them engaged with the challenges and solutions. This not only improves engagement and understanding but also encourages behavioural change.
By focusing on community participation and sustainable actions, you can build a positive relationship with the public, improve your PR, and enhance operational efficiency while reducing the financial burden of infrastructure upgrades.
Communication
We act as an impartial intermediary, focusing on building a better future for water resources and communities. Through innovative engagement methods, we distribute key messages that resonate with the public, whilst bringing together key stakeholders.
By positioning ourselves as a neutral advocate for both the environment and householders, we help you engage communities in your programs more effectively. This reduces resistance, improves participation, and minimises the risk of negative press or public backlash, ensuring your initiatives are well-received and supported.
Testimonial
One of the key successes of this project was the ability to engage local communities. By fostering collaboration between residents, community groups and local authorities, we saw first-hand how community ownership and involvement can drive the uptake of waterbutts at scale. The engagement strategies deployed by Our Rainwater were instrumental in ensuring that the project had a lasting impact beyond the pilot phase.
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Why is Our Rainwater's approach needed?
We have designed our unique approach for water companies, who want to reduce sewer spills whilst reaching and exceeding regulatory compliance, engaging communities creating a more sustainable future for our water resources.
We offer bespoke yet scalable solutions guided by our proprietary modelling, wrapped in an end-to-end service packed full of tools:
- Packaged in a detail modelling report, we recommend the right solution in the best location, including a cost-benefit analysis to guide the process.
- Your own analytics dashboard for engagement and real monitoring enabling data validation and strategic decisions
A householder dashboard:
- to engage customers with their rainwater capture asset for its continued use and maintenance
- to ensure your projects works years into the future by increasing retention and understanding
- to educate customers around the importance of water resources, reducing consumption and promote citizen science
A fit and forget approach lacks long-term vision and misses opportunities, including:
- Data and monitoring - is your intervention working now? How about in a years' time? How much impact is it really having?
- Community support - Despite projects being implemented with the best intentions, poorly executed projects can result in bad PR
- Community understanding - why is the project important? Is the asset maintained?
Imagine the impact when a householder, street and community feel part of the solution?
With such stringent targets in place, taking effective collaborative and measurable action is now more important than ever.
We're not just helping you tackle sewer spills & surface water flooding. . .
Although reducing CSO's is the key objective, we're here to deliver much more than that and it's all interconnected.
- Reduce sewer misuse
- Reduce water consumption
- Promote citizen science
- Increase biodiversity
- Improve drought resilience
- Decrease heat island effect
- Improved public trust
- Ensure community buy in
- Improve brand image
Testimonial
The partnership with Our Rainwater has been a great example of how innovation and collaboration can help us meet the challenges of water management in an increasingly unpredictable climate. We look forward to continuing our work and building on the momentum created by this project. Our Rainwater has been an invaluable partner in this journey, and I highly recommend their expertise to any organisation looking to implement sustainable and community-driven water solutions."
We are transforming rainwater management through an innovative approach, setting the standard for effective and sustainable practices, founded on over 30 years of combined industry insights and a carefully crafted team of passionate experts.
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Deliver expert advice on intervention type and location, whilst remaining solution agnostic, problem focused, and client specific.
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Combine our extensive network and product catalogue as a catalyst for collaboration, delivered through one convenient point of contact.
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Engage the target location, exceeding project objectives whilst promoting long-term understanding and behavioural change.
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Provide water company-centric insights that are invaluable for strategic decision-making and validating the effectiveness of interventions.