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A review of England’s revised draft regional and water resources management plans

The Environment Agency's review of whether the proposed plans will secure resilient and sustainable water supplies up to 2050.

From:
Environment Agency
Published
22 June 2023
Last updated
20 December 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

A summary of England’s revised draft regional and water resources management plans

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Appendix A: Smart metering in revised draft water resources management plans

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Appendix B: Planned leakage and per capita consumption reduction against the Environment Act water demand target

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Appendix C: Revised draft water resources management plans supply options

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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 Agency’s review of these revised draft water resources management plans and regional plans. It highlights important successes and where improvements are required.

Updates to this page

Published 22 June 2023
Last updated 20 December 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated to reflect the proposed schemes in Southern Water’s 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 Water’s revised draft WRMP24, consulted upon in autumn 2024. The report is also updated to reflect revised smart metering data in Southern Water’s 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Updated the publication to reflect the Environment Agency's review of the revised draft regional and water resources management plans.

  4. 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)'.

  5. Replaced figure 2, as the original image contained an error.

  6. First published.

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