25/07/11
Water companies prepare long-term for water resources - not just to next week or month, but to next season, and the season after that. The recent rainfall is welcome but is just the beginning of recovery from the earlier dry months.
Water UK attended the recent series of meetings with Secretary of State Caroline Spelman to consider, with other abstractors, the state of the country's water resources.
The Secretary of State has said herself that it has rained fairly constantly since these meetings started; however, there are parts of the country where even these damp conditions are only just beginning to make up for many months of extremely dry weather.
Many companies have made it clear that the relatively resilient state of our water resources - to date there have been no restrictions - has been due to good planning, action on leakage, sensible investment, but also relatively wet weather in seasons past. Companies will be planning for all eventualities.
Sarah Mukherjee
