Draft Water Resources Management Plan consultation

Welcome to our consultation on our draft Water Resources Management Plan (dWRMP) for 2025 to 2075. The consultation is running until 20 February 2023.

Here, you can find out how we’re proposing to keep taps and rivers flowing in the decades ahead - supplying you with clean, wholesome drinking water, while protecting and supporting nature and delivering benefits to wider society.

We’re very grateful to you for taking the time to learn more and have your say on our draft plan, including by completing our online feedback survey that can be found at the bottom of this page. You can also ask us any questions you may have, by emailing us via wrmp@seswater.co.uk.

A full list of the ways in which you can contact us and comment on our draft plan can be found in our summary consultation document. This is also available as an accessible version (suitable for use with a computer screen-reader) and a printable version.

What's in our plan

Our plan focuses heavily on bringing down demand for water by further reducing leakage from our own network of pipes and helping our customers use less in their homes and workplaces.

Looking further ahead, it also includes potential investment to enable us to move more water around our supply area and increase how much water we can store.

The key information on our proposals can be found in our summary consultation document. We've also produced an accessible version of the document that can be used with a computer screen-reader.

Further details on our draft plan are also available in our technical plan document and its accompanying appendices. These are available via the Documents section of this page.

Having your say

During our consultation, we want to hear from as many people as possible about our draft plan to secure future water supplies.

All the feedback we receive will be addressed in our Statement of Response, which will be published next year. We will then update our Water Resources Management Plan and submit it to the Government. Our final plan will then be published, once we have approval from the Government.

Our online feedback survey is available at the bottom of this page.

The regional picture

The WRSE draft best value plan for the South East of England has now been published for consultation, with further information on what’s being proposed and details on how you can comment available via www.wrse.org.uk.

Our SES Water draft Water Resources Management Plan (dWRMP) is based on the WRSE draft plan, just like the dWRMPs for the five other water companies serving our region.

Please note the WRSE draft best value plan consultation and our consultation on our draft plan are separate, although they’re taking place at around the same time.

Feedback on both plans is welcomed, but do make sure to respond to our consultation if you want to comment on something to do with our area specifically.