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Greg Barker, Minister for Energy and Climate Change made the comments today in response to questions from Baker Homes' Jamie Abbott at the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes (EEPH) conference.
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People in the north west and Scotland are facing water shortages and hosepipe bans this summer. Bans have been imposed in some areas to relieve the water shortage caused by the driest winter in the UK for a hundred years. Climate change projections suggest that this is set to become the norm, with drier starts to summer and fresh water supply plummeting in lakes and reservoirs.
The Top 50 Developers 2010 were announced in the Inside Housing magazine this week. SHIFT members, including Affinity Sutton, Southern Housing and A2 Dominion were placed in the top ten. Organisations such as these are also leading on the sustainability front and are current members of the sustainability benchmark scheme known as SHIFT which is run by Baker Homes. It is good to see the top developing housing organisations taking sustainability issues forward. Baker Homes are proud to have 40% of the top developing organisations as SHIFT members.