Water Resources Board (Report)

HC Deb 12 May 1976 vol 911 cc170-1W

Mr. Spearing

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he has taken to implement the final report of the Water Resources Board published in 1973.

Mr. Denis Howell

This report was referred to the water authorities when they were first set up, and they are taking full account of its recommendations in drawing up their regional plans. In the recently published consultation paper "Review of the water industry in England and Wales" the Government have proposed that one of the tasks of the new National Water Authority should be the preparation of a long-term national strategy, and the new authority will certainly base much of its work on the long-term recommendations in the report.