We have secured a record number of commitments from water companies to improve the environment. They must take more than 24,000 actions over the next five years as part of the Water Industry National Environment Programme. This is a rolling five-year plan, developed in collaboration with Ofwat, Natural England and water companies. Actions include: 💙 Protecting and enhancing rivers 🌧️ Upgrading storm overflows 🏊 Improving bathing water sites 💧Reducing water abstraction This represents £22bn of investment in England to benefit the water environment and customers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eq_HarQx
Great news! It’s positive to see water companies stepping up and committing to such an investment in our environment. Protecting rivers, upgrading storm overflows, and improving bathing water sites are all super important for both nature and US. Let's see the impact this will have over the next five years!
I think the British Public want iron clad guarantees that these Cartels wont do exactly what Thames Water did and effectively lie to you and the regulator Ofwat, and cover up the fact they WONT complete all the works that we are 'forced' to accept in the 2025-2030 price review. we have zero confidence that these Cartels wont continue to do as they have been for the last few decades, and lie, cheat, obfuscate, act unlawfully - so there HAS to be IRON CLAD guarantees - we will not just accept the word from these criminal cartels. We also now need to start seeing the CEOs of these cartels hauled in front of criminal judges for their illegal and unlawful actions over the last 2 decades!
'Promises are meant to be broken... ' Might it help if the regulator and enforcement body was actually a full Government department like HMRC . This would enable the EA which is an NGO, not a Crown office to use the NCA, send actual Crown prosecutions to the CPS, use the Proceeds of Crime Act in its own capacity and enjoy unfettered intelligence and joint working with the Police, Immigration etc etc At present the EA has to share rare private prosecution days at magistrates court along with the likes of the RSPCA and other non- gov organisations. Hardly gets a shiver going at a Water Company board meeting I'd imagine !
Great to see this level of commitment to protecting and improving water resources! Excited to see the impact these actions will have on communities 👏
It would be useful to have some sort of annual monitoring report showing which actions (costed), and by which water companies, have been fully, or partially completed by each year end. 😎
Does this mean that the EA will now be conducting unannounced checks and inspections 24/7/365, and not just Monday to Friday during office hours?
Commended....but let's be frank there has objectively been a dramatic and historically significant deep decline in river and coastal water quality so what we are talking about here are plans to return our waters back to their former state 10 years ago over the next (let's say) 3-5 years.
I have lead Lympstone flood wall design for UK EA. Happy to be involved and contribute to more!!!
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18hIf ever there was a piece of bullshit it is this announcement. This just shows that the Environment Agency, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Ofwat are completely useless token institutions and in the pockets of water companies wholly. Terrible for the environment, the customer, Britain as a whole. It's blindingly obvious. Leadership at these are complicit in going backwards and should all be held accountable, as well as the water companies that continue polluting, continue infrastructure maintenance malpractice, continues raking it in be that taxpayer money or pivoting onto customers who are quite frankly sick of all of the water companies AND the three institutions mentioned earlier, while shareholders continue getting their returns. There is no defending this any longer whatsoever.