Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 13
Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management
Published 10 Jul 2020
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
Abstraction is the cheapest way for water companies to source water and other means to improve long-term resilience are generally energy-intensive. For example, another significant way for water companies to add to total supply is through desalination, a process that turns seawater into drinking water. Currently desalination is energy-intensive and plants are costly to build. Thames Water currently has the only desalination plant in England.25
From: Public Accounts Committee, Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management (HC 378), 10 July 2020
Government response
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