HC Deb 15 June 1971 vol 819 cc67-8W
Dame Joan Vickers

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he proposes, in view of the acute shortage of water in Devon and in the City of Plymouth, to secure an improvement in the near future in this situation.

Mr. Peter Walker

This is essentially a matter for the stautory water undertakers in consultation with the Devon and Cornwall River Authorities. But my hon. Friend, the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths), the Under-Secretary of State, visited the South-West last weekend at my request to discuss the situation with the authorities concerned and to see something of the problems first hand.