Water Resources Management Plan

It is a statutory requirement that every five years water companies produce and publish a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP).

The WRMP should demonstrate that we have long-term plans in place to accommodate the impacts of population growth, drought, our environmental obligations and climate change uncertainty in order to balance supply and demand.

It consists of several elements.

Our Water Resources Management Plan must demonstrate

• Resilience to a range of risks – e.g. drought, loss of supplies.
• Flexibility and adaptability – the plan must be robust to changes to supply and demand forecasts in the future.
• Approach to climate change – drier summers and wetter winters make it harder to meet peak demand.
• Sustainable abstraction options – which don’t deplete our natural resources or have a negative effect on biodiversity and our local river environment.
• Planned proactive work – proactive maintenance of our network to reduce amount of water wasted by leakage and optimise the use of our sources.

The purpose of this Bid Assessment Framework is to support the market for water resources, demand management and leakage services.

It provides guidance and a template to enable you to submit proposals to help us maintain our water supply balance.

This process is designed to ensure transparency and fairness throughout the tendering process and builds on existing processes and our obligations for water resource planning, procurement law and competition obligations.