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Our ambition for WRE WRE Stakeholder and Consultation Group meeting 14 January 2020 Tom Nichols Environment Agency Water Resources Operations Catchment Services 14 January 2020 Changes to water resources planning meeting the resilience

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Our ambition for WRE

WRE Stakeholder and Consultation Group meeting 14 January 2020

Tom Nichols Environment Agency Water Resources – Operations Catchment Services 14 January 2020

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Changes to water resources planning – meeting the resilience challenge

  • New National Framework to set out needs

across sectors and across the nation

  • Cross sector regional planning to inform

company plans / investment

  • Regulators and government in alignment

Water companies funded to make sure solutions are ‘shovel ready’ - £469m for 17 schemes - RAPID

  • National Policy Statement to make sure

planning process is suited to nationally strategic infrastructure

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Draft National Planning Framework output

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The role of RAPID

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Water Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development

A new cross- regulatory unit focused on facilitating timely and co-

  • rdinated

development of large-scale water resources infrastructure schemes

RAPID’s vision: Resilient, timely, high-quality, environmentally beneficial and affordable water resources

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Rapid gates and schemes

Gate Standard gate start (submission) dates Accelerated gate start (submission) dates Gate 1 July 2021 September 2020 Gate 2 October 2022 (aligned with draft WRMP24 consultation period) September 2021 Gate 3 Summer 2023 (aligned with final WRMP24 publication) June 2022 Gate 4 Summer 2024 April 2023 Gate 5 (if required) Winter 2025 Autumn 2024

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The role of a national framework

  • Articulating national and regional

water needs

– Including demands outside the water industry

  • Setting expectations for demand

management, new resources and transfers

  • Reviewing regional plans against

those expectations

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Priorities for regional plans

  • 5 groups now cover England
  • Building resilience to drought and
  • ther pressures on water resources
  • A single cost-effective plan,

considering regional and inter- regional solutions, including transfers

  • Taking account of wider needs
  • working across sectors (developing shared

infrastructure where appropriate)

  • actively embedding environmental

improvement

  • Taking a catchment based approach
  • Water quality and flood risk improvements
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Year Month Lead Work area / Activity 2020 February EA National Framework report published. Includes key policy decisions. 2020 February Regional group Statement of resource position – classification as net receiver or net donor

  • f water

2020 July Regional group Method and process agreement to ensure compatibility of planning methods and assumptions. Initial statement of ambition for the region. 2021 February Regional group Statement of resource position – updated to include new data, options and costs 2021 August Regional group / RAPID Regions share draft plans and discuss with regulators and other groups to make sure they join up and match 2021 December Regional group Changes agreed to final draft plans 2022 January Regional group Informal consultation of regional plans and pre-consultation of water resource management plans. Set out how regional plans will feed in to Water Resource Management Plans (WRMP). 2022 August Regional group Publish final draft regional plan (and submit draft WRMP) 2023 September Regional group Publish final regional plan (linked to final WRMP)

Timelines: regional planning

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RAPID GATE 4 RAPID GATE 3

Timeline - National Framework, Regional Planning, RAPID,

Water Resources Management Plans, Business Plans

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Wat Co Submit draft WRMP National Planning Framework published Wat Co final WRMP Wat CoDraft Business Plans Wat Co Final Business Plans Publish final draft Regional Plans Regional Group Statement

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resource position Regional Group resource position updated Informal consultation

  • f Regional

Plans Publish final Regional Plan RAPID GATE 2 RAPID GATE 1 Wat Co WRMP SoR Regions share 1st draft plans for comment

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The planning problem

Water resources in the East of England are under pressure

Regional domestic demand is 2nd highest The region is the fastest growing and driest region in the country By far the greatest area of irrigated crops

  • f any region

Home to national and internationally important sites for wildlife Unique flood risk, drainage and navigation challenges

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Non-PWS abstraction across the regions

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Draft National Planning Framework output

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PWS and Non-PWS abstraction (consumptive) across the regions

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Draft National Planning Framework output

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Regional PWS water needs by 2050 (1:500 drought and high population)

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Draft National Planning Framework output

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Potential non-PWS demand by 2050

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  • 50

100 150 200 250

Baseline Best Estimate Upper Baseline Best Estimate Upper Baseline Best Estimate Upper Baseline Best Estimate Upper Baseline Best Estimate Upper West Country Water Resources Water Resources West Water Resources North Water Resources South East Water Resources East

million m3/year Spray irrigation Other Agriculture Power Paper and Pulp Chemicals Food & Drink Other Industry Private Water Supply "Other" non-PWS sectors

Draft National Planning Framework output

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Pressures on the environment

  • Demand for water

exceeds supply (especially in drought)

  • Demand pressures can

lead to conflict and negative impacts for the environment and economic growth

  • Abstraction is not

sustainable in some catchments (now and in the future)

  • Abstraction poses a threat

to national important habitats, including chalk stream

  • The over-abstraction

problem is not unique to any one sector

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What we want WRE to deliver

  • A better environment
  • Stop unsustainable abstraction
  • More water for the environment

more of the time

  • Deliver a net gain in biodiversity
  • Be ambitious
  • Economic growth
  • Work with catchment processes
  • Solutions that benefit multiple

sectors

  • Opportunities for trading and

sharing resources

  • More secure supplies
  • Improved resilience to drought
  • Identify strategic solutions
  • Reduce demand
  • Abstraction from sustainable

sources

  • Resilience to change
  • Think long-term
  • Build in uncertainty
  • Solutions must be adaptable

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How we want WRE to work

  • The region needs to adapt to the

pressures it faces

  • WRE is ideally placed to engage with

multiple sectors and further develop collaboration across all sectors

  • Achieve shared agreement on

sustainable-use of water

  • Develop both local and strategic scale

solutions (including new strategic options)

  • Demonstrate the economic benefits of a

multi-sector approach

  • Deliver a regional plan that goes ‘back to

back’ with water company WRMPs

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How we want to work with WRE

  • The EA has a duty to secure the

proper use of water resources – we are part of the solution

  • We have a regulatory role, but

want to embrace collaboration

  • Engage and work with WRE
  • Be a partner to share costs and

benefits of solutions

  • Willing to take risks where these

are justified

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Your views…

  • Do you agree with our ambition for WRE?
  • What does the EA need to do to help deliver

change?

  • What do you want WRE to do for you?
  • How do you want to work with WRE and people

in the room to make it happen?

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