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Water: Consumption

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN HL5519, tabled on 18 January 2022

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce new policies to deliver long-term reductions in water usage across England.

Answered on

26 January 2022

The Government published a Written Ministerial Statement on Reducing Demand for Water on 1 July 2021, which announced measures that we will take forward to deliver reductions in water demand across England. This includes plans to introduce a mandatory water efficiency label to inform consumers and encourage the purchase of more water-efficient products, to develop a roadmap towards greater water efficiency in new developments and retrofits, and to ask water companies to develop a consistent approach to address leakage on customers’ own pipes.