Despite Britain’s damp reputation, climate change means more scorching summers. It also threatens more heavy rains, which can overwhelm sewers and storage
Due to open in 2029, Havant Thicket reservoir—a collaboration between Portsmouth Water, where Mr Taylor is chief executive, and neighbouring Southern Water—will be Britain’s first since the early 1990s. Others are on drawing boards elsewhere, along with schemes to transfer water between rivers, via canals and long-distance pipes, and to recycle treated wastewater. Water companies in England and Wales also plan to cut leaks by half and demand by more than a fifth.
The Climate Change Committee , which advises the government, said on March 29th that the country was “strikingly unprepared” for the effects of a warming planet. Turning to water supply, theadded a little less gloomily that plans for reducing leaks and demand, at least, were “credible”, and noted progress in planning new sources.
Suppliers have meanwhile been exhorting customers to check for “leaky loos”, from which 400 litres a year can drain away, and other hidden seepage. Nevil Muncaster, strategic resources director at Thames Water, says leakage from customers’ pipes account for a third of his company’s total.’s report applauds recent improvements—leakage is down by 11% since 2019—but adds that companies’ combined plans fall short of the 2050 target.
Big projects are costly. In 2019 Ofwat allowed for companies to spend £469m just on initial assessments of capacity projects when it set their prices for 2020-25 . Companies will have to put schemes costing more than £200m out to tender. For the biggest, there may be separate regulated companies.
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