The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators (WCWC) has set out its concerns that there is no overarching strategy pulling all the elements of water conservation together in the United Kingdom and that current developments in policy and regulation are evolving as a patchwork of silos, often inconsistent, not linking together, or to what is in place now.

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According to the WCWC, it often seems that water conservation is driven by developments which are ‘not seeing the wood for the trees.’ The question is now often asked; what has gone wrong with water? One answer, in part, is that there is not a consistent ‘drum beat’ for all the processes of change. Greater clarity and harmony is needed.

The WCWC has responded to several consultations on matters relating to water conservation over the last few months with a consistent and persistent theme that water management is in dire need of an overarching strategy. These are all located on the Company website. This statement identifies the topics to which the WCWC has responded. It is not intended to be comprehensive treatise on any of the topics, which may be found in the submissions.

https://waterconservators.org/policies-and-practices/

Current developments in policy and regulation are evolving as a patchwork of silos often inconsistent, not linking together or to what is place now. The Defra Water Plan of 2023 is mentioned rarely, if ever.