Over the next 25 years, our area will face increasing pressures due to growth and climate change. These include:

• Population to increase by 20%
• Number of houses to increase by 40%
• Growth in businesses in line with population to support employment
• Summers will be drier reducing water availability
• Winters will be wetter, increasing risks of flooding
• Quality of surface waters threatened by increased pollution
• More water required to maintain environmental systems
• Targets for reduction of carbon emissions

In our Water Resource Plan, we set out how we propose to manage these challenges while continuing to provide affordable, secure and safe water supplies. To ensure that our proposals have fully taken into account social and environmental issues, independent consultants have carried out a Strategic Environmental Assessment of our plan. This assessment is also available for public consultation.

You may download all the documents you require from this website. For ease of download, the documents have been separated into manageable sections as described below.

1. The non-technical summary of our proposed strategy

2. The Water Resource Plan - detailed report

3. Appendices for each main chapter of the Water Resource Plan (containing further detail referred to in the text of the plan)

• Appendix 1 Glossary
  • Glossary for WRP.pdf
    
• Appendix 2 Consultation and compliance details
  • 2006 cust survey met_nonmet use.pdf
  • 2006 cust survey topline.pdf
  • Customer willingnes to pay survey Results for CCW.pdf
  • Resources Plan security.pdf
  • Statutory consultation process.pdf
  • WRP_ consult list.pdf
    
• Appendix 3 Policy & Strategic Environmental Assessment
  
• Appendix 4 Availability of water
  • Baseline LOS return periods.pdf
    
• Appendix 5 Demand for water
  • Base Year Pop forecast.pdf
  • Base Year Prop forecast.pdf
  • NERA NHH forecast.pdf
  • NERA Non HH demand rep 261107.pdf
  • SWRA planning population forecast Oct 07.pdf
  • SWRA planning props and pops Oct 07.xls
    
• Appendix 6 Water efficiency and leakage control
  • Economic Level of Leakage Update Jun 2007.pdf
  • Leakage control method 2007 outturn.pdf
  • Ofwat Good Practice reg+BW activity.pdf
  • Water efficiency 2007 outturn.pdf
  • Water_eff_strat V2 04.pdf
    
• Appendix 7 Climate change
  • BW CC Flow_Factor_Estimation.pdf
  • BW CC inflow wet dry ave.pdf
  • Climate change impact DO and Demand.pdf
  • PR09 Severn Clywedog storage.pdf
  • Severn CC flow modelling 1976.pdf
    
• Appendix 8 Headroom
  • Baseline Headroom.pdf
  • HeadroomTarget 50pc.pdf
    
• Appendix 9 Supply-demand balance
  • Baseline Supply demand balance.pdf
  • HouseHold Demands by type.pdf
  • HouseHold Demands- Complete.pdf
  • PCC by category.pdf
    
• Appendix 10 Options, costing, and social + environmental costs
  • Avon Tertiary Treated Effluent S007 schematic.pdf
  • Avon Tertiary Treated Effluent S007.pdf
  • Bristol Water Draft Environmental and Social Costs.pdf
  • Cheddar Res S001 Schematic.pdf
  • Cheddar Res S001.pdf
  • Chew Valley Pumped Storage S015 Schematic.pdf
  • Chew Valley Pumped Storage S015.pdf
  • D047 i6 Bristol Water Social and Environmental Costs draft.xls
  • D061 i4 BW Energy and Carbon footprint draft.xls
  • Docks transdfer S012 chematic.pdf
  • Docks transfer S012.pdf
  • Minor Sources S006.pdf
  • Purton Res SO13 schematic.pdf
  • Purton Res SO13.pdf
  • Resource scheme capital S+E cost.pdf
  • Resource scheme costs summary.pdf
  • Severn Spring Costings S002 schematic.pdf
  • Severn Spring S002.pdf
  • Southern Sources Upgrade S017.pdf
  • Southern Sources_consolidated S004 chematic.pdf
  • Southern Sources_consolidated S004.pdf
  • summary Social and Environmental Costs.pdf
  • summary2 Social and Environmental Costs.pdf
    
• Appendix 11 Options appraisal, preferred strategy WRP tables
  • BW S-D v1.1 Worksheet draft_plan_final_0308.xls
• BW S-D Worksheet Summary.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet title.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 2.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 3.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 4 FP.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 5.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 6.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 7.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 8.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 9.1.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP 9.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP1 BL.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP1A BL.pdf
• BW S-D Worksheet_WRP4a FP.pdf
• Final leakage target.pdf
• FINAL PLANNING supply_demand.pdf
  

4. The Strategic Environmental Assessment of our Water Resource Plan

5. The Appendices for the Strategic Environmental Assessment

Any person or organisation is entitled to make a formal representation in writing to the Secretary of State regarding the content of our draft Water Resources Management Plan. Those wishing to do so may send their representations by email or post to:

Water.resources@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Representations by post should be sent to:

Dawn Instone
Water Supply and Regulation Division
Department for Food and Rural Affairs
Area 2C Ergon House
Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2AL

The formal consultation period for our draft Water Resources Management Plan begins on the 28th of April 2008 and continues for 13 weeks until the week ending 25th July 2008. During this period, the Secretary of State will review all representations and forward these to us regularly. We will publish our formal response to any representations we receive within 26 weeks of the start of the consultation period.

You are also invited to make a formal response regarding the content of the Strategic Environmental Assessment of our draft Water Resources Plan. Those wishing to do so may send their representations by email to:

corporate.affairs@Bristolwater.co.uk

or by post to:
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Corporate Affairs
Bristol Water
Box 218 Bridgwater Road
Bristol BS99 7AU

The consultation period for our Strategic Environmental Assessment begins on the 28th of April 2008 and continues for 12 weeks until the week ending 18th July 2008.

If you have trouble downloading these documents, you may write to our Corporate Affairs section and request a CD containing all of the documentation outlined above.