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<p>Water transfers can play a strong role in securing resilience, alongside other
new infrastructure and reducing demand and leakage as part of the ‘twin track approach’.</p><p>
</p><p>There is already a large amount of water transferred across the country, giving
water companies greater flexibility to meet demand. Water companies are finalising
revisions to their statutory water resource management plans. These plans set out
how they will meet demand for water over at least the next 25 years and many include
further transfer schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Ofwat, working with the Environment Agency
and Drinking Water Inspectorate, recently established the Regulators’ Alliance for
Progressing Infrastructure Development which will make sure regulation enables strategic
schemes to improve resilience of water supplies. Such schemes might include water
transfers.</p><p> </p><p>We are developing a National Policy Statement for water resources
infrastructure which will streamline the planning process for nationally significant
water resource infrastructure including large water transfers. We plan to lay the
final version of this document in Parliament in the autumn.</p>
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