EA updates its overview of water resource plans
by Karma Loveday
The Environment Agency has updated its summary of England’s revised draft regional and water resources management plans, using data from the most up-to-date versions of the plans.
This confirms that the country will be short of 5bn litres per day by 2050, more than a third of the current 14bn litres a day put into supply. This is chiefly driven by reducing unsustainable abstraction, which accounts for 2,828 Ml/d of the gap.
The summary also details planned supply side and demand side actions. It can be viewed here:
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