Climate change
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. It will have a significant and permanent impact on the water cycle. This in turn has serious implications for the long-term sustainability of the water and sewerage sectors in England and Wales.
We published our first climate change policy statement in 2008. This outlines how we are responding to the challenges of climate change, and the ways in which we expect the water and sewerage companies to respond. We continue to review and update our climate change policies as the scientific and political frameworks develop.
Find out more about the impact climate change could have on the water and sewerage sectors.
Responding to climate change
The challenges of climate change need to be addressed by the water and sewerage sectors in ways that offer value and protection to consumers both now and in the future. Approaches to climate change fall into two broad categories:
Future Impacts on Sewer Systems in England and Wales
A report prepared for Ofwat by Mott MacDonald
29/Jun/2011 (PDF - 1 MBytes)