House of Commons - The Water White Paper - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee - Second Report
The Water White Paper

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 20 June 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

The Water White Paper

2 Managing water resources

Abstraction reform

Long term reform

Short-term reforms: Restoring Sustainable Abstraction

Bulk trading and interconnections

Floods, drainage and the automatic right to connect

Flood insurance

3 Water Efficiency

Metering

Rainwater Harvesting and Recycling Water

Leakage

4 Affordability

Access to information

5 Market Reforms

Timescales

The Scottish experience

A joint Anglo-Scottish market

Future structure of the water sector

Consumer representation

6 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence

Additional (unprinted) Written evidence