Drinking Water Inspectorate recruits for new drinking water Advisory Standards Board

The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) is creating an Advisory Standards Board to make recommendations to ministers on the future drinking water standards. It has opened recruitment for drinking water professionals with experience at a senior level in a research, regulatory or management role, in the UK or internationally, to provide authoritative guidance on standards.

The Standards Board will use science and evidence to make recommendations to ministers for future updates to standards where there are new and emerging contaminants, updated toxicological data and other areas where standards may be improved to protect public health and improve confidence in drinking water.

The Standards Board will comprise a chair and eight board members. The DWI will provide the secretariat function and undertake administration.It pointed out that “In reality, each individual person in the UK uses an average of 152l of water a day, and the demand for water has been increasing since the pandemic as people spend more time at home.”