At Ecotopia.co.uk we believe water is the most precious resource on earth. Full stop! Careless use of our water resources is the surest way to bring about a future water crisis. That’s why it’s important to learn about water saving devices now. The place for each of us to start saving is in our home, and most people are surprised by the impact they can make there.

Ecotopia.co.uk is supporting the new Tap campaign which is mobilising a mass consumer backlash against bottled water and a return to good old tap water – in a similar way to the plastic bag rebuff brought about by the I’m not a plastic bag products last summer. The first product in the Tap range at www.ecotopia.co.uk is a pack of DIY bottled water stickers at £6.99 -allowing you to re-use a standard water bottle up to 10 times. We know even the most hardened tap water drinker is going to buy bottled water from time to time, so these labels increase the lifespan of a bottle (thereby reducing waste) and let people de-brand their big name water bottle and promote tap water. We also carry a range of the funky new tap water bottles from just £6.00 . Very importantly, 70% of all profits from these products sold go to clean water and sanitation projects in Africa.

Ecotopia.co.uk also sell a wide range of water filter kits. Check out the Doulton HIP DIY plumbed water filter kit at £75.00. Made from food grade acetal and polyester, the HIP is a cost-effective and easy to use filter unit. It can be used either to filter all cold water running into the kitchen sink, or to provide filtered drinking water via a separate tap.

For people who do not have a reliable pressurised mains water supply, whether it is at home, on a campsite, or in a holiday cottage, a gravity filter at £54.99 enables you to have clean filtered drinking water on tap. Water is poured manually into the upper chamber. It passes through the filter candles under pressure of gravity into the lower chamber where the filtered water can be accessed via a tap on the front of the filter.

The fabulous Interflush WC water saving kit costs £17.95 fits on top of your WC siphon and connects to the front mounted flush handle. Did you know that every person uses 150 litres of water per day. 60 of these litres are used for toilet flushing. The Interflush^TM saves half of the flushing water, that is 30 litres per person per day.

Watergreen at £19.99 has won the Waterwise Marque by Waterwise, the leading authority on water efficiency. WaterGreen is a clever syphon pump. Put one end in your bath; the other end out the window, connect to a hose, squeeze the pump and let gravity syphon your waste water onto your garden. It moves water from your water butt, bath, shower or sink to your garden – simply, cleanly and affordably. It can also be used to empty cisterns, blocked sinks and dishwashing machines. It stores neatly and can be used at any time. Best of all, you can use your hosepipe to move recycled or rain water, even during a hosepipe ban! Easy: a few squeezes of the hand pump gets it going, then it runs by itself. Efficient: empties baths in minutes and can be left unattended Flexible: fill a water butt, wash the car or use straight onto the garden Convenient: attaches to any standard garden hose Effective: recycles water – saving money, your garden and the planet

Check out the Tefal Quick Cup at £59.99. For real instant drinks here’s a very clever device that brings you instant hot water at 95C. In this way it uses around 65% less energy than conventional kettles. Only the water that is required is heated instantly – no pre heating is required and therefore no cooling and loss of energy takes place.

Prefer a traditional kettle, try our Eco Kettle at £33.95. Introducing a breakthrough in environmental energy saving design and technology, ecotopia.co.uk is proud to offer the eco kettle. No other kettle saves you as much water, time and energy. The eco kettle is innovative and is revolutionising the way we efficiently boil water for hot drinks or cooking, as the unique design of the eco kettle allows you to boil just enough water that you need by releasing water from a full reservoir incorporated within the kettles body via a measuring button. Pressing the measuring button selects the volume of water you wish to boil, from a single cup to a full kettle. The result is the ability to accurately measure the amount of water you wish to boil which until now has been an unavailable option on any kettle. Not only do you save electricity whilst lowering carbon emissions but using the eco kettle ensures that you will always boil the exact amount of water from now on.

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