The Government is progressing further work on on the joint reservoir safety reform programme curently being implemented by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency (EA).

The Government has today committed to improving reservoir safety through reforms to the regulatory regime and modernisation of the Reservoirs Act 1975 as it accepted all of the recommendations of the second part of an independent review by Professor David Balmforth.

Severn Trent is getting ready to start work on a £7.6 million construction project to carry out essential upgrades at  its Draycote Water reservoir.

NI Water has announced that £6.4 million will be invested in a major programme of reservoir improvements across Northern Ireland to refurbish and enhance the safety of its impounding reservoir portfolio.

The Environment Agency (EA) has published its biennial report on reservoir safety for 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020 - the report is a comprehensive review of reservoir compliance and enforcement over the last 2 years.

Thames Water has started work on a major project to help protect London’s water supply for the next decade at the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir in Walton-on-Thames.

NI Water has issued a statement stressing that the company has “no concerns about the structural integrity” of the Silent Valley or Ben Crom Reservoirs.

Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has gone out to tender with a contract for civil engineering support services at its reservoirs worth an estimated £5.33 million

The number of reservoirs in England with overdue safety measures needed to be put in place has increased from 40 to 48 in the last two years, according to the  Environment Agency’s latest report on reservoir safety published yesterday.

Three water companies and the Environment Agency itself have been issued with non-compliance notices for failures to meet requirements of the Reservoirs Act 1975 during the last two years – the Agency is the enforcement authority for the Act.