UK holding its own for bathing water quality against tougher European standards
The latest results from the European Environment Agency show that the UK is holding its own for bathing waters that comply with the EU standards.
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Water availability crucial to building new communities
The UK water industry is fully committed to delivering essential infrastructure and supporting the government's National Infrastructure Plan. However, water supply and availability needs to be at the heart of our decision-making for communities, businesses and agriculture - we can no longer just assume water will be there when and where we need it.
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Pharmaceutical residues in drinking water
Water UK supports the need for further research on both the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment and their removal in both wastewater and drinking water treatment. By establishing a robust scientific evidence base additional regulations could be considered.
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How water companies measure leakage
Neither the UK water companies nor the industry regulators use percentage of total supply as a measure of leakage performance, as it is almost always misleading.
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Water UK response to Government's 'Plan for Water'
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NIRC questionnaire on sector interaction and information flow
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2015 Review of the Drinking Water Directive
Water UK supports the commitment by the European Commission to carry out a review of the Drinking Water Directive (DWD) during 2015 with the option for a full revision subsequently.
Information, guidance & standards
National guidance for healthcare waste water discharges
Healthcare organisations undertake a number of activities that do, or have the potential to, result in the discharge of various items and substances to sewerage systems.
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Ensuring the long-term stability of the sector
The water industry has invested more than £116 billion since privatisation. This investment has underpinned the improvements to drinking water quality, made our rivers and beaches much cleaner and also secured regional growth and jobs. Water UK is holding its annual City Conference in March for investors, analysts, ratings agencies, City institutions regulators and government bodies, to discuss future finance and investment in the water sector.
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Response to study on presence of trihalomethanes in drinking water
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Water UK responds to storm overflow spill data publication
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Water UK response to Ofwat accelerated spending announcement