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  2. Rainwater harvesting in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The velodrome of the London Olympic Park is designed to harvest rainwater. In recent years, rainwater harvesting has become more common due to increasing water prices. While rainwater harvesting has been employed in high-profile facilities like the velodrome of the London Olympic Park, the UK's ongoing revival has lagged behind other countries such as Germany (the present world leader in ...

  3. Tax code (PAYE) - Wikipedia

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    The number attached to them represents tax free earnings divided by 10. In the tax year 2021/2022 the standard tax free allowance on income was £12 570, which means the standard code, and the emergency tax code was 1257L. [1] Until 2016, persons over 65 and 75 had an increased personal allowance. Tax free Personal allowances can only be taken ...

  4. Personal allowance - Wikipedia

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    In the UK tax system, personal allowance is the threshold above which income tax is levied on an individual's income. A person who receives less than their own personal allowance in taxable income (such as earnings and some benefits) in a given tax year does not pay income tax; otherwise, tax must be paid according to how much is earned above this level.

  5. Rainwater management - Wikipedia

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    Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the process of collecting and storing rainwater rather than letting it run off. Rainwater harvesting systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of the sustainable rainwater management "toolkit" [5] and are widely used in homes, home-scale projects, schools and hospitals for a variety of purposes including watering gardens, livestock, [6] irrigation, home ...

  6. Taxation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Each person has an income tax personal allowance, and income up to this amount in each tax year is free of tax. Until the 2027/28 tax year, the tax-free allowance for individuals with income less than £100,000 is £12,570. [38] Any income above the personal allowance is taxed using a number of bands:

  7. Water conservation - Wikipedia

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    Harvested and filtered rain water can be used for toilets, home gardening, lawn irrigation, and small scale agriculture. [8] Another strategy in water conservation is protecting groundwater resources. When precipitation occurs, some infiltrates the soil and goes underground. [9] Water in this saturation zone is called groundwater. [9]

  8. Rainwater harvesting - Wikipedia

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    configuration of domestic rainwater harvesting system in Uganda. [1]Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off.. Rainwater is collected from a roof-like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), aquifer, or a reservoir with percolation, so that it seeps down and restores the ground w

  9. Permaculture - Wikipedia

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    Rainwater collection is a common practice of permaculture. Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and storage of rainwater for reuse before it runs off or reaches the aquifer . [ 56 ] It has been used to provide drinking water , water for livestock, and water for irrigation , as well as other typical uses.