Southern Water’s Water Efficiency Team is pleased to announce that customers registered with the ‘GetWaterFit’ platform – a free online water-saving tool to help customers save water, energy and money while raising funds for local schools and charities - have now donated ‘coins’ exceeding 30,000, meaning Southern Water will donate the first annual amount of £2000 to WaterAid.
Southern Water customers can register with ‘GetWaterFit’ and check their usage, make savings, and receive free water saving devices* - each set of checks completed awards them ‘coins’ to donate.
Since May 2021 nearly 9000 customers have registered, making their water usage more efficient, and helping Southern Water to support WaterAid and other causes.
On 2 August £2000 from Southern Water was presented to WaterAid
Justine Lewis, Water Efficiency Officer said: “The GetWaterFit platform is a great way to look at your home’s water usage, behaviours and receive free water saving products. Plus as an added bonus, customers can donate their water saving coins to WaterAid who work in 28 countries delivering life-changing clean water supplies, toilets, and good water hygiene. Or donations can also be given to local schools if selected by the customer.”
Background Info:
*must be a water customer with Southern Water
Customers can register with GetWaterFit to check their usage and allocate their savings to a local school or WaterAid - GetWaterFit: Your water-saving calculator (southernwater.co.uk)
WaterAid
WaterAid is working to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. The international not-for-profit organisation works in 28 countries to change the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people. Since 1981, WaterAid has reached 28 million people with clean water and nearly 29 million people with decent toilets.
For more information, visit our website wateraid.org/uk, follow on Twitter @WaterAidUK, @WaterAid or @WaterAidPress, or find them on Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram.
- 771 million people in the world – one in ten – do not have clean water close to home.
- 7 billion people in the world – more than one in five – do not have a decent toilet of their own.
- Around 290,000 children under five die every year from diarrhoea diseases caused by poor water and sanitation. That's more than 800 children a day, or one child every two minutes.
- Every £1 invested in water and toilets returns an average of £4 in increased productivity.
- Just £15 can provide one person with clean water.