Water Supplies (Nitrate Levels)

HC Deb 25 January 1989 vol 145 cc645-6W

87. Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what further estimate he has made of the cost to water authorities of reducing nitrate levels in public water supplies; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Moynihan

The capital costs to water authorities of reducing nitrate levels in public supplies will be between £25 million and £35 million; the cost to statutory water companies will be around £5 million.