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The Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) has today released its annual report on Scottish Water’s performance in delivering its investment programme.
The Commission has found that, although Scottish Water increased its spending and delivery towards the end of 2007-08, it has fallen behind in delivering some outputs. Annual targets for the reduction of water leakage in 2007-8 were also missed. WICS is monitoring the situation carefully. Scottish Water is due to provide WICS with a better assessment of its economic level of leakage in December.
Sir Ian Byatt, Chairman of WICS said:
“We have expressed to Scottish Water our concern about the rate at which projects are being submitted for sign-off, as this will result in customers having to wait longer for the benefits promised to them.
“Leakage levels also continue to be higher than the pragmatic targets we set in 2006. While Scottish Water is working with us to improve the way it measures leakage, it must take the practical action necessary to tackle leakage and progress quickly to the economic level.
“Customers can however be reassured that they will not have to pay any more as a result of shortfalls in Scottish Water’s performance, as they cannot exceed the customer charges caps set by WICS in 2005. We continue to monitor carefully the delivery of Scottish Water’s investment programme and leakage performance.”
A full copy of the report is available to download at www.watercommission.co.uk
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