Water resources management plan
Our Hafren Dyfrdwy Water Resource Management Plan
What is the water resources management plan?
It is a statutory requirement that every five years water companies produce and publish a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP). The WRMP should demonstrate that we have long term plans in place to accommodate the impacts of population growth, drought, our environmental obligations and climate change uncertainty in order to balance supply and demand.
It consists of several elements, including:
How is the plan made?
1. Supply and demand forecasts are made for the next 25 years and beyond to help us determine whether we will have enough water to supply our customers.
2. Potential solutions are sought to increase the amount of water we will have available; these include reducing our leakage, new sources of sustainable abstraction, and improving the water efficiency of both ourselves and our customers.
3. On our journey to the final plan we follow the statutory timetable set out by Welsh Government and NRW, we hold regular consultations with our customers and stakeholders to identify potential solutions, and we consider the environmental impacts alongside affordability.
Future challenges
Our Water Resources Management Plan must demonstrate:
Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) 2024
We published the final version of our Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP24) and corresponding appendices on 19 November 2024. This latest plan looks ahead to what we plan to do between 2025 and 2085. You can see the full suite of documents here, with the only redactions being to remove commercially confidential information from WRMP tables 5a-c.
To make sure our plan is the best it can be, we published a draft in November 2022, and followed this with a 14 week consultation period to gain as much feedback as possible. We had many comments and queries on the plan and these were published in our Statement of Response, where we showed that we reviewed each of the comments and, where appropriate, how we used the feedback to update and improve our plan.