New Scottish Water chief highlights need for sustained investment

Scottish Water’s new chief executive Alex Plant highlighted that sustained increased investment will be needed to ensure future water resilience when he took up post on 1 June.

Former director of strategy and regulation at Anglian Water, Plant (pictured) took over from Douglas Millican, who had served 27 years at Scottish Water, including as finance director and a decade as chief executive.

Plant said: “Customers, communities and the environment will remain at the heart of what we do. We face many challenges, including maintaining our very high standard of service while adapting to the impacts of climate change on our critical infrastructure.

“This will need sustained increased investment if we are to ensure future resilience. Our focus is on working with our partners to deliver a transformed service which protects and enhances the environment, provides real value for people every day and continues to deliver excellent performance in every aspect of what we do.”