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The Annual Water Efficiency Conference is held each year at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford. This year's conference took place on 22 March, with a pre-conference dinner on the 21 March. It focused on the key themes of People and Water Efficiency and Evidence for Water Efficiency, and featured a very high calibre of speakers, as outlined below.
| People and Water Efficiency |
Evidence for Water Efficiency |
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• Water efficiency and the consumer: Dame Yve Buckland, Chair, Consumer Council for Water
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• Water - a scarce resource: Ian barker - Head of Water Resources, Environment Agency
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• Not a drop to spare!: Yvonne Orgill, Commercial Director and Richard Moss, Training/Marketing Manager for the Bathroom Manufacturers
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• Traces of water - developing the sociology of domestic water consumption: Will Medd, Research Associate, Centre for Sustainable Water Management, Lancaster University
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• Sustainable Homes: Anne Hemming, Head of Buildings Division, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister |
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• Economic case for water efficiency: Philip Fletcher, Director General, Ofwat
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• The metering opportunity: George Archibald, Metering Services Manager, Severn Trent Water
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• Forthcoming and existing projects on water efficiency: Dr Mike Farrimond, Director, UKWIR 1
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• WATERSAVE - where to now?: David Butler, Professor of Water Engineering, Imperial College
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• Water Savings Group: Richard Wood, Head of Water supply and Regulation Division, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Each of the sessions were followed by a Q & A, allowing conference participants an unprecedented chance to raise water efficiency issues with regulators, government, practitioners from both the water industry and other industries and academics. The dinner on the 21st March included a facilitated discussion on the impact of metering on water efficiency and offered a unique networking opportunity for the water efficiency community.
The event brought together the leading policy makers, doers and thinkers on water efficiency, both as speakers and participants, offering an opportunity to network and exchange ideas that will shape water efficiency at this critical time. The conference covered the full range of water efficiency from the economic, social and environmental aspects to the technical applications and innovation.
Full Programme
Read a report of the 2006 Waterwise Conference
View a list of the attendees
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