Water: Pipelines
(asked on 1st February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount of water lost through leaks in England.
This question was answered on 9th February 2022
Defra has challenged water companies to improve their performance on leakage. In the current price review Ofwat has set a target for an average 16% leakage reduction by 2025.
Longer term, the water industry has also committed to reduce leakage by 50% from 2017/18 levels sector-wide by 2050, a target which has been endorsed by Government and is set out in our Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat.