In England, our climate is changing, our population is growing, and as a nation we want an improved environment along with a thriving economy, enabled by resilient water supplies. Action is required now to meet these objectives.
Water companies and regional water resources groups have produced draft plans to address the need for secure, sustainable water supplies up to 2050.
Following consultation on draft water resources management plans, water companies have now published statements of response and revised draft plans.
This publication is the Environment Agencys review of these revised draft water resources management plans and regional plans. It highlights important successes and where improvements are required.
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Published 22 June 2023 Last updated 20 December 2024 +show all updates
Updated to reflect the proposed schemes in Southern Waters revised draft water resources management plan (WRMP24). This includes updates to the summary supply option information in the executive summary, updates to the supply option maps (figures 9-13) and the supply option appendix C to reflect the options that were set out in Southern Waters revised draft WRMP24, consulted upon in autumn 2024. The report is also updated to reflect revised smart metering data in Southern Waters revised draft WRMP24 in the main report and appendix B, with an overall increase in smart metering ambition in the revised draft WRMPs as a result.
Updated the executive summary and appendix C to make it clear that the revised draft water resources management plans contain proposals for new supply schemes will each individually supply 10 million litres of water or more per day.
Updated the publication to reflect the Environment Agency's review of the revised draft regional and water resources management plans.
Updated figure 3 to give clearer headings and added a note under the figure provide more detail about the data presented for 'Resource options (including new sources, drought options and other selected options)'.
Replaced figure 2, as the original image contained an error.
