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 policy, and aim, is to conserve and enhance our natural environment where appropriate, working to avoid, or minimise, adverse impacts through good land management and operational practice. We recognise that our management of water, and associated landholdings, provides an opportunity for the wildlife and habitats that occur, or could potentially occur, within these areas to flourish.
We formally consider conservation issues during the planning, and construction, phases of all our projects, we seek practical solutions that ensure we can carry out our operations and projects with minimal environmental impact. We investigate opportunities for biodiversity conservation and enhancement in all areas of our work. We recognise we have a duty to take account of environmental issues in the early stages of the planning process, and have processes in place to ensure this occurs
We recognise the importance of designated conservation sites, and our obligation to our landholdings designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), we will actively manage our SSSI landholdings towards meeting national favourable condition status targets. We have a responsibility to put into practice protected species management to protect, and ensure the survival, of protected species that occur within our landholdings.