Southern Water is inviting customers, stakeholders and communities to comment on the company’s Long-Term Priorities to deliver a resilient water future as part of a wider set of consultations running over the coming months.
Southern Water has now published its plans setting out what it wants to achieve by 2050 and is asking customers and stakeholders to provide feedback to help shape both its short-term delivery plans for the next five to 10 years, and its broader Long-Term Priorities.
Key themes Southern Water says it will need to have addressed by 2050 include:
- Further resilience to drought
- Access to additional water supplies to meet the demands of climate change and population growth
- Reduced leakage by 50%
- Reduced supply interruptions
- Reduction in water usage – both at work and at home
- Water quality (addressing micro-contaminants such as micro-plastics)
- Lead-free mains and supply pipes
- Water sources are kept clean and are not affected by nutrients and contaminants
- Reduced risk of sewer flooding
- Recycling Biosolids
- Extraction of nutrients, energy and water from wastewater
- Improved water quality status for designated coastal bathing waters, river bathing areas and shellfish waters
- Improved regional management plans
- No pollution events
- Protection and enhancement of chalk streams
- Net zero operational emissions from its sites
- Maximised renewable energy production
- Using offsets as the last option in delivering new projects
Katy Taylor, Southern Water’s Chief Customer Officer, said:
“We’ve been working hard shaping how we deliver against our vision of creating a resilient water future for our customers in the South East. The activities and priorities we need to deliver in order to achieve this by 2050, are now detailed in plans for everyone to see.
“It’s vital that this strategic direction is clear so that we can continue to deliver essential services for customers in the most sustainable way.
“Our priorities are already shaped through listening to our customers and communities and from studying emerging trends in the environment. Now is the time to see these outputs together and understand what it means to each of our communities.”
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