Recommendation 19

We welcome the Government’s goal to increase water storage in the agriculture and horticulture sectors by two-thirds by 2050. We also welcome the Government’s work on reviewing abstraction licenses and its call for evidence on the planning barriers to small reservoirs. However, food producers clearly feel that the Government is not doing enough nor moving fast enough. To reach its target of increasing water storage by two thirds by 2050, the Government needs an implementation plan that considers and removes barriers in a holistic way, namely: funding, planning, and abstraction.