Supplying water is a long-term business. We must plan well ahead to ensure the stability and sustainability of our services.
It is essential we invest sufficiently and in a properly targeted way to ensure all these assets continue to provide a reliable service for the water supply. In addition, we have certain targets agreed with our regulator, Ofwat, to make some further improvements to the service and to manage the availability of sufficient water resources through continuing to meter existing households.
In the five-year period from 2010 to 2015 we will need to invest a total of £42 million to achieve these targets.
Our commitments on investment
£ million
Capital projects
Drinking water quality and security improvements
1.65
Enhancing levels of service
0.76
Balancing supply and demand
5.18
Maintaining serviceability
- surface assets
21.75
- underground assets
13.05
Total capital investment
42.39
(All figures expressed at 2010/11 prices)
The outputs and activities needed to deliver our commitments on drinking water quality and environmental improvements are:
The activities needed to deliver our commitments on service to customers are:
A summary of our commitments to maintain serviceability are:
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