Planning for the Long-Term Future

WELSH Water is planning today for the service customers will receive as far ahead as 2035.

Such planning is needed to ensure that massive investment provides the right long-termassets to meet future needs – the highest quality drinking water supply, improved wastewater treatment and excellent customer services.

This investment must protect public health and also deliver further environmental improvements.

The planning is ongoing, but Welsh Water has already identified the goals it must achieve. They include:

Investment in equipment to identify and rectify problems before customers are affected

Enhanced pollution control – using new technology

Helping to ensure that rivers sustain good ecological status

Ensuring water abstraction from rivers does not harmthe ‘good ecological status’ of watercourses

Investment which continues to benefit beaches, marinas and inland waters – benefiting tourismand recreation

Ensuring that Sites of Scientific Interest and other protected areas are not adversely affected by its operations, and

Promoting biodiversity at Welsh Water’s works and depots

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