Policy paper

Water sector: improving long-term resilience

Setting out plans for supporting long-term resilience in the water sector.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency
• Published: 2 March 2016

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Documents

Enabling resilience in the water sector

Ref: PB14418

PDF, 350 KB, 23 pages

Water supply and resilience and infrastructure: Environment Agency advice to Defra

PDF, 1.39 MB, 47 pages

Details

The report sets out plans to support the long-term resilience of the water sector in dealing with pressures like climate change and a growing population.

This is supported by the Environment Agency’s advice which covers the current and future resilience of the public water supply, power generation and agricultural sectors.

Published 2 March 2016