From Ofwat In December 2020 we published a discussion paper on public value to which we received a number of helpful responses. This paper sets out the key themes from the responses. We provide our reflections on the points made and how we might build on this to support the delivery of further social and […]
New report sets out the results of the Environment Agency’s determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021. Additional company areas as a result of the 2021 determination: Cambridge Water Portsmouth Water South Staffordshire Water Severn Trent Water – excluding Chester zone Veolia Water Wessex Water South West Water – Bournemouth South […]
Water UK’s chief executive has urged utility companies to sign up to the UN-backed Race to Zero on the first anniversary of its launch. South West and Welsh Water now join United Utilities, Anglian and Severn Trent in the decarbonisation pledge. From Water UK Water industry marks first anniversary as new members join Race to […]
Ofwat has set out £2.8 billion in green recovery investment plans for the water sector which includes £850 million for completely new projects by 5 water companies and a further £1.9 billion of accelerated AMP7 & AMP8 future planned projects by 12 water companies in total. Severn Trent Water, South Staffs Water, South West Water, Thames Water, and United […]
New Environment Bill provisions to tackle storm overflows – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The Environment Bill will include new legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers and help protect our waterways. Three new measures on storm overflows, announced last month by Defra, will be added by government amendment to the Environment Bill later this year. The Bill […]
Ofwat publishes Regulatory Accounting Guidelines for reporting of emissions From Ofwat In our ‘Consultation on regulatory reporting – Responses document’, and the accompanying Information Notice (IN 20/08), we provided notice of, and reasons for, changes relating to how we would like companies to report on their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions for 2020-21. This document reiterates […]
George Warren, Senior Policy Officer in Climate Change Adaptation & UK Susdrain SuDS Champion 2020 It’s all about small distributed #SuDS!!! Those whom know me will be familiar with me constantly banging on about the need to deliver small #SuDS at scale and how important it is that delivery organisations are able to unlock the […]
From Defra A joint industry-government group established last year to tackle river pollution has today (22 January) agreed a new objective to prevent damage from storm overflows. The Storm Overflows Taskforce – made up of Defra, the Environment Agency, Ofwat, Consumer Council for Water, Blueprint for Water and Water UK – has agreed to set […]