Transcript Water Planning for the Future - Peter Davies

Water - Planning for the Future
28th June 2012
East Midlands Councils
Pete Davies,
Senior Commercial Development Advisor
Severn Trent Water
• 1.8 billion litres per day of drinking water cleaned and
delivered to 7.4 million people
• 1.4 billion litres of waste water per day removed and
cleaned from 8.5 million people
• Our customers are amongst the most water efficient
in the country, using an average of 124 litres a day a
person
• Our network of water mains is 46,000 km long
• Our network of sewers and drains is 128,000 km long
• We operate 126 water treatment works and
1,026 sewage treatment works.
• At £311 a year, we have the lowest average water bills
in the country.
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What is PR14? Periodic Review 2014
PR14 is the process under which we prepare our future
business plans.
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For our economic regulator, Ofwat, it is our Asset Management Plan
(6th since privatisation) for the period 2015-20. We highlight where
we want to invest, and the associated impact on customer bills and
OFWAT will ensure its fair and reasonable.
However for Severn Trent Water, we need to plan strategically over
a much greater horizon (typically 25-40 years). The first step on that
journey is what we want to do in AMP6.
AMP 6
AMP 7
AMP 8
AMP 9
AMP 10
AMP 11
AMP 12
2015 -2020
2020 -2025
2025 -2030
2030 -2035
2035 -2040
2040 -2045
2045 -2050
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Severn Trent Water will have a multitude of
challenges to balance in complying our
business plan......
...so our PR14 plans are our proposals for how we respond to
these challenges, but....
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...but we want the priorities of our customers
and stakeholders to be at the heart of our
plans.
There are areas where we can be more flexible in our
approach, and its here we want your views. For example:
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Making sure we have enough water to supply our customers
Keeping our sewers working well
Keeping our services reliable
Reducing our effect on the climate
Adapting to a changing climate
Ensuring healthy and sustainable rivers
Delivering better customer service for households
Providing the services our business customers want
Being good neighbours
Helping customers who struggle to pay
...lets look at the first in a little more detail.
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Whilst
we undertake
elements, the Water
How do
we buildthea technical
Water Resources
Plan?
Resources Management Plan will require both stakeholder
input and customer choice.
We forecast what demand for water
there will be …
We work out what we will be able to
supply …
• How many new houses will be built?
• What population growth will there be?
• What level of water usage will there be in the
future?
• Water quality may deteriorate due to
pollution
• Restoring Sustainable Abstraction (EA) could
lead to us to taking less water from the
environment
• Climate change impacts
We work out what levels of service
we will deliver and what level of
risk we can take …
• Plan to have no more than 3 hosepipe
bans in 100yrs
• Manage the risk that comes from having
uncertain data about future demands and
our ability to supply water
How much water do we think we will
be short of?
We then identify solutions we could
put in place, e.g.
We Carry Out Least Cost
Optimisation
And so we create the Water
Resources Plan
• Leakage Control
• More metering
• Water efficiency
• Releasing any available supply we have
• New sources of water
• Working out the balance of getting the
best mix of solutions at the least cost
• Planned solutions for the next 25 years
that will ensure we can supply our
customers with the water they need.
Choices:
How should we strike the right balance between securing supply and making environmental improvements?
Should we accept more frequent hose pipe bans in exchange for lower bills?
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Appetite for metering, water saving behaviour?.........
We are therefore undertaking a significant
amount of stakeholder engagement over the
coming months.
2011
JAS
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2012
J FM
AMJ
Phase 1 Shaping
the Consultation
Phase
Aim
2013
JAS
OND
Phase 2 Shaping the Plan
Awareness
Understanding
J FM
AMJ
2014
JAS
OND
Phase 3 Balancing the
Plan
Support
J FM
AMJ
Phase 4
Assessment
Advocacy
Customer Challenge Group – aka Severn Trent Water Forum
Role is to challenge, scrutinise and advise
Independent Chair – Dame Yve Buckland
Members include: EA, DWI, NE, CCWater, LA reps, CBI, NFU
Publications
Preliminary
Stakeholder
consultation
Making the
Right
Choices
consultation
Draft plan for
consultation
WRMP
Statement of
Response
Final
Business
Plan
(to Ofwat)
Draft WRMP
21 May - Climate Change workshop
12 Jun - Water Services workshop
19 Jun - Waste Water Services workshop
26-28 Jun -LGA Conference at NIA
31 Jul – Making the Right Choices
Consultation closes
Sept 12 – Customer consultation
Final WRMP?
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In summary, we want to hear your views to
enable us to make the right choices.
Please look out for the Severn Trent Water stakeholder
consultation on PR14 – in particular:
– ‘Making the Right Choices’ consultation document on the web
www.stwater.co.uk
– Written consultation period for ‘Making the Right Choices
April – end of July 2012.
– Customer forums and workshops in autumn 2012.
– Severn Trent indicative Business Plan and Water Resources
Management Plan consultation – Mar 2013.
Pete Davies, Severn Trent Water
[email protected]
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