Water Resource and Supply Resilience Plan 2024 Consultation

1. Are you responding to this consultation as an individual or representing an organisation?

Individual Organisation - please specify below

Please add the name of the organisation

2. Our plan includes an increased planning horizon from 25 years out to 50 years, which is intended to try to take account of future longer term climate change impacts and demographic changes. Do you agree with this approach?

Yes No

What, in your view, would be the impact of increasing this planning horizon?

3. NI Water is planning to transition from a current Level of Service (LoS) of 1 in 40 to be resilient to 1 in 200-year droughts in the future (0.5% probability of exceedance in any year). Is this transition to provide a higher level of service and associated increased resilience important to you?

Yes No

Please explain the reasoning for your response.

4. The changes to the Level of Service (LoS) referenced in Q2 are as a result of the impact of our current understanding of increasing risk from climate change and the perceived increased expectations of customers for resilience of water supplies. Are you aware of other risk factors that could potentially impact our resilience in future?

Yes No

Please outline any other factors that could potentially impact our resilience in the future.

5. Our plan includes a planned 5% reduction in leakage below the Sustainable Economic Level of Leakage. (The Sustainable Economic Level of Leakage (SELL) is the optimum level of leakage, when balancing both the cost of leakage management and the cost of lost water. This incorporates internal costs, and also external costs such as the cost of carbon). Do you support this leakage reduction policy?

Yes No

Would you be supportive of additional funding to enable further reductions (Section 14.4)?

Please explain your reasoning for whether or not you would support additional funding to enable further reductions.

6. Our new plan considers an “adaptive” approach, where we acknowledge future uncertainty in factors such as climate change impact and population growth; we prepare plans for a range of future outcomes but only invest when it becomes clear there is a need to do so. Do you consider this is an appropriate approach?

Yes No

Please explain your reasoning.

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Changes From Previous Plan