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We would be so happy to share thoughts and learnings on Ofwat innovation fund bid development, particularly the branding and communication of concepts. Jane Bellard Miranda Rennie Water Innovator Alliance

💧Discover how we can reinvent the future of urban water use through innovative policy, technology, and behaviour change! 💧 Join us at the launch event for the Action Paper on Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus for homes. Hosted by the 50L Home Coalition, which aims to enable consumers to move towards a daily 50L water per person and a net zero living that still feels like 500L. 📅 Date: Tuesday 8th October 2024 🕐 2:30 - 6:00pm 📍 London Sign up here for your free spot: https://lnkd.in/e5S-z4kf Arcadis British Water Waterwise Weir: The Agency Miranda Rennie

🌍We started Weir with the vision to have a positive impact on our planet and contribute to the greater good. So when that gets recognised by an industry leading award like the edie Net Zero Awards, we won't lie - we did a little dance of glee!   🏆Our Bidwell Water Savers campaign with Affinity Water has been shortlisted for 2 awards, ‘Behaviour Change Campaign of the Year’ and ‘Green Building Project of the Year’. And, the shortlist for ‘Communications Agency of the Year’, is the icing on the cake.    🙏 Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way to achieve this industry recognition – and keep your fingers crossed for us that we can bring home the win in November! #edieNetZeroAwards #WaterIndustry #Recognition #BehaviourChange #GreenProjects #CommunicationAgency Jane Bellard Miranda Rennie

How much water do the people of Cambridge think they use each day? 🤔 This is one of the questions we asked people across the city as we launched our Yes We Cam campaign – the county’s biggest water-saving action 💪 Many couldn’t believe that on average, we use 136 litres of water each day. By engaging with customers across the city centre we were able to share some handy water-saving tips such as switching to eco mode on the washing machine. Small changes like this will help us to collectively preserve more water for the environment and protect our region’s chalk streams. Find out more about our campaign at yeswecam.co.uk

I'm speaking at WWT’s Next Generation Asset Management & Capital Projects Conference 2024 on 25-26 September 2024 at the NCC Birmingham. Let me know if you'll be there too 👋 I'll be speaking with Julian Webster about how we used behaviour change and offsetting to create the world's first water positive housing development as part of the Ofwat Water Breakthrough Challenge project 'Water Neutrality at NAV Sites'. I'll also share insights used to create Bidwell Water Savers from other water efficiency behaviour change campaigns including Affinity Water's SOS: Save Our Streams, Cambridge Water's Can for the Cam and Yes We Cam and South Staffs Water's Water Efficiency in Faith and Diverse Communities. https://bit.ly/3M6DpPT #WWTAssetandCapital www.weirtheagency.co.uk #weirtheagency #waterefficiency #behaviourchange #waterindustry Miranda Rennie Utility Week

📢We've been busy working with Mumin Islam from South Staffs Water and Stephanie Fox and Chloe McFarland from Waterwise on a project looking at water efficiency in faith and diverse communities. 🍚 A big part of the project is looking at South Asian communities, and we've LOVED working with Masterchef winner Ping Coombes and Emma O'Neill, Head Gardener at Garden Organic, to produce content that can be used across the industry to help customers understand how to repurpose water that's used for rinsing rice for gardening and beauty purposes. 👩🌾Here's the video that tells you all about the gardening hints and tips! We're sure your plants will thank you for this🌱 💄Watch this space for the beauty version with Sonia Haria, Beauty Director of the Telegraph, coming soon! Jane Bellard Miranda Rennie https://lnkd.in/eyaguNTg #DiversityAndInclusion #WaterEfficiency #Sustainability #Gardening #OfwatInnovationFund #Beauty #WaterProject #WaterInnovation

Just your standard day at work herding cows around your campaign launch stand and live broadcast media interviews. Never a dull moment 🐄💦 Thanks to our ace clients Natalie Akroyd, Douglas Nairn, Richard Waterhouse, Mubina Ali and Daniel Clark from Cambridge Water for taking it in their stride. Weir: The Agency, Miranda Rennie

Call for involvement in water saving research interviews and case studies. We are currently running a project to review water saving incentive schemes, in the UK and globally, that encourage businesses to choose and fit water efficient products in their domestic settings, or install other measures such as leak detectors, rainwater harvesting or grey water reuse systems. We are particularly interested in businesses that operate in the Retail, Education, Accommodation and Food/Beverage sectors. If your business operates in one of those sectors, and you would be willing to take part in research interviews that we are conducting, please register your interest by emailing us at [email protected]. Alternatively, add your name and company in the comments section below 👇 and we'll be in touch. Interviews will be conducted by our partners Weir: The Agency during September.  We are also keen to hear from you, if you know of any water saving incentive schemes (current or historical) that have or haven't worked. Please send a link to the scheme/case study in the comments section below.  If you would like to be involved in either the interviews and/or by sending information on incentive schemes (and you are happy for us to do so) we will cite you in the final project report. For more details of the project visit: https://lnkd.in/e2ww5jP4

Here at Cambridge Water, we supply clean water to customers' properties. Last summer, we asked Cambridge residents to help us save water and reduce waste around the home. Can for the Cam was a campaign that encouraged people to use watering cans in their gardens instead of hosepipes.   We’re delighted to announce that Can for the Cam was nominated for Water Efficiency Project of the Year at the Water Industry Awards last night. Unfortunately we did not win, but we were so pleased that the amazing efforts of our customers and our team were recognised in the first place. The awards celebrate excellence in the UK water industry, but more importantly our nomination underlines how engaged and responsive our Cambridge customers are to water saving messages.   The question we posed to customers was clear - can you help us to reduce seasonal high demand by moving from hosepipes to watering cans? Residents across Cambridge answered our call and used 940,000 fewer litres of water per day compared to normal summer rates.   Big thanks to Skewb Ltd and Weir: The Agency for their work on the campaign, and most importantly to all of our Cambridge customers who made water behaviour changes. Each small action added up to make one big difference in the fight to protect our precious chalk streams.   Later this month we will be launching the next step in our water saving efforts in Cambridge. Watch our digital channels to see what happens next!   #Cambridge #WaterEfficiency #Water #WaterIndustry #WIA2024

✨ Finalists✨ Our Weir: The Agency Summer 2023 Can for the Cam 🌊 water-saving campaign made it to the finals of the Water Industry Awards for Cambridge Water and Skewb Ltd Although we didn't win gold, we did get to meet Steve Backley OBE, so Jane Bellard could impress him with the fact she'd seen him compete & win silver in the 1995 Gothenburg World Championships 🥈🔱 (no obvious javelin emojis surprisingly). Exciting to be working on the evolution of this initiative, to continue to save water in Cambridgeshire..... Next year🏆 Natalie Akroyd Douglas Nairn Caroline Cooper Daniel Clark