Water Resources – We Need New Infrastructure

It is abundantly clear that there can be no more delays in constructing new infrastructure to meet the nation's future water needs.

If there was any lingering doubt, it is abundantly clear that there can be no more delays in constructing new infrastructure to meet the nation's future water needs.

Recently, there have been reports of 160,000 people in the south of England being perilously close to losing water supplies during summer 2022. Southern Water has confirmed it will be extending its reliance on emergency drought measures until at least the mid-2030s and the National Infrastructure Commission has made clear its views on the topic (see below). The balance between protecting the environment by reducing the volume of water abstracted from sensitive catchments versus ensuring that homes and businesses continue to have plentiful supplies of water when needed is an increasingly difficult one, such that an equilibrium will be increasingly difficult, if not