Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 14
Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management
Published 10 Jul 2020
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Department told us that water companies have a commitment to achieve net zero by 2030 and the Department told us it was working with Water UK, the trade association for water companies, to look at how to build the net zero ambition into the water resource planning process. In particular, it said that it was looking at the incentives for water companies to ensure that nature-based solutions were not disincentivised.26 Ofwat said that the carbon footprint and whole-life carbon emissions should be factors in how it evaluates schemes and acknowledged that it needed to do more to start getting net-zero considerations embedded in its evaluation of options in the water sector.27
From: Public Accounts Committee, Ninth Report: Water supply and demand management (HC 378), 10 July 2020
Government response
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