7 August 2006
Lewes District Council has been recycling water as part of an effort to conserve it during the long dry summer.
Lewes is one of the areas which has been severely affected by the dry conditions and is struggling with a drought.
However, in a bid to keep its Southover Grange Gardens in bloom and maintain them as a top tourist attraction, the council has been looking at innovative ways to reduce the amount of water being used on them.
One move has been to use recycled water, which is captured in tanks from the guttering on the main house and pumped out to water the flowers.
Now the council is preparing new ways to save water by setting up tanks to collect rainwater during winter months which can then be used on the gardens in the following spring and summer, thereby conserving even more water.
Next year the council plans to use more drought-resistant plants in its gardens, which will also reduce the amount of water needed by the gardens because of their more hardy nature.
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