24 Feb 2022
‘Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, World Water Tech Innovation Summit, 22 February 2022 Thank you for inviting me back. ‘……….. Two years ago I said that all of us need to think differently if we are to tackle successfully the new reality of the climate emergency. Today I want […]
17 Feb 2022
Ofwat ‘Introduction to the guidance At PR19 Ofwat announced a £469 million ring-fenced development fund for companies to investigate and develop strategic water resource solutions that benefit customers, protect and enhance the environment and benefit wider society. This funding provides companies with the ability and certainty to accelerate the development of solutions to be ‘construction […]
14 Dec 2021
Urgent call to put water efficiency at centre of climate crisis action An urgent call to action has been raised to get the country back on track reducing demand for water across England, not only to tackle the growing national water deficit (around four billion litres of water a day by 2050), but also to support […]
03 Nov 2021
Drought risk in the Anthropocene: from the Jaws of Death to the Waters of Life Sir James Bevan – Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021. ‘Thank you. Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m heavily outgunned by the expertise here today. Some of what I’m about to […]
28 Oct 2021
WaterUK on the Net Zero Strategy made this point … ‘For example, the Heat and buildings Strategy, published at the same time as the Net Zero Strategy, contained many laudable ambitions. But for our homes to be fit for the future they must be water efficient as well as energy efficient and we would have […]
25 Aug 2021
EA ‘The Environment Agency’s 12 week consultation on changes to the way organisations and individuals are charged to abstract water from the environment has been launched. These changes are to help better manage and protect our water resources. Based on recent projections, more than 3.4 billion additional litres per day will be needed in England […]
10 Aug 2021
The growth of bottled water over the last decades is astonishing but comes at a huge cost as revealed by a new study. I always wonder why the Water Companies, who spend so much to create excellent drinking water in the UK don’t do a hundred times more to support initiatives like Refill Day update […]
05 Aug 2021
Waterwise launches revamp of UK water efficiency strategy Waterwise, the leading authority on water efficiency in the UK, is launching a new consultation on the 5 year Water Efficiency Strategy for the UK which comes to an end in June 2022. Read the review of the 2017-2021 strategy. An online consultation from the 26th July which […]
