We are proud to provide a sustainable, affordable, clean and safe water supply and to manage and treat the waste water returned to us in a way that protects the environment.
Our Procurement Action Plan continues to focus on building effective partnerships with our supply chain to identify improvement opportunities and develop innovative solutions which benefit all parties as well as society and the customers we serve. Key elements of the plan include:
• Ensure that all business partners are treated with fairness and transparency.
• Focus on areas where we have a high impact on society or the environment: areas of high spend and products that involve a large amount of capital expenditure.
• On an ongoing basis, review the works, goods and services we procure to ensure that they reflect a real need and that specifications include social and environmental criteria early in the process.
• Assess our suppliers on the basis of social and environmental criteria, in addition to the financial ones.
• Ensure that all new suppliers are reviewed on their financial, health and safety, environmental and insurance records and performance.
• Seek to lead and support the local and economic development of the communities we serve and, to this end; we will use local suppliers where possible.
• Communicate our approach to our suppliers and engage with them on how improvement scan be achieved, working in partnership where appropriate.
• Review the policy annually to ensure that it is in accordance with the principles stated in our Sustainable Development Policy.