This online talk discussed Southern Water's 2024 Water Resources Management Plan. These plans, which are published every five years, detail how the company intend to balance water supply and demand for at least the next 25 years. Our speakers were Nigel Hepworth and Samuel Underwood from Southern Water.
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00:00 Water resource planning areas
03:40 Regional water resource planning
04:54 Strategic role of the Rivers Test and Itchen
07:04 Water supply deficit in a drought scenario
11:20 Abstraction licenses
13:21 Hydrological modelling
16:38 Drought permits and drought orders
23:47 Candover Augmentation Scheme
26:14 Timeline for publication of plans
28:18 Introduction to the 'Water for Life' programme
33:23 Water transfer and water recycling project
50:43 Southern Water's Turnaround Plan
52:32 Questions - storm overflows
58:45 Question - wet wipes
01:00:51 Questions - nitrate and phosphate pollution
01:05:47 Question - addition of chlorine
01:06:24 Question - water transfer and chemicals
01:07:43 Questions - water transfer and biosecurity
01:09:38 Question - hydrological modelling
01:12:27 Question - climate change
01:13:34 Question - low flows and fish
01:15:00 Question - leakage reduction
01:16:23 Questions - Fawley Refinery
01:18:10 Question - new housing developments
01:19:53 Question - Candover Augmentation Scheme
01:21:27 Question - water recycling in London
01:22:13 Question - mitigation for electricity use
01:24:12 Question - alternatives to water recycling
01:25:27 Question - non-potable and grey water
01:26:30 Question - training for Parish Councils
01:26:59 Question - nature-based solutions
01:28:24 Question - wetland creation
01:29:20 Question - beaver reintroduction
01:30:54 Question - environmental performance
01:31:39 Question - financing of improvements
01:33:45 Question - tiered billing
