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Sewage and Water Abstraction: Water Companies

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 172359, tabled on 23 March 2023

Question

Sir Charles Walker
Conservative
Broxbourne
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that (a) publicly and (b) privately owned water and sewerage companies fulfil the duty to provide details of water abstraction and sewerage discharges to the public upon request; and if she will make a statement.

Answer

Rebecca Pow
Conservative
Taunton Deane
Commons

Answered on

28 March 2023

All data held by the Environment Agency on water abstractions, sewage treatment effluents or sewage related discharges is Environmental Information and available on request or in some cases is published on GOV.UK.

Water and sewerage companies have published Event and Duration Monitoring (EDM) data relating to sewage discharges annually since 2020 that can be found here. The 2022 data will be published at the end of March 2023.

Defra also publish a summary of water abstraction statistics. The most recent update was published in July 2022, including data up until 2018: Water abstraction statistics: England, 2000 to 2018 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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