Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Plate 10.1
A mains failure in
the Headingley district of
Leeds in 1991 resulted in the
loss of potable water supply as
well as serious flooding to a
number of properties.
Emergency water was
provided from bowsers since
standpipes were unavailable.
Table 10.1
Water management priorities. Largely in response to the drought
of 1995-6 but exacerbated by a series of public relations failures by the water
companies, John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, chaired a task force,
which established these priorities, 1997.
absolute leakage reduction targets as a political
response to criticism of the water industry is
strangely at odds with the Ofwat-derived policy
of setting an economic level of leakage in which
absolute levels will differ according to water
supply and leakage repair 'costs'. Leakage presents
an opportunity for research in questions of both
policy and practicality:
•
replace or repair
•
renovation technologies
•
area prioritisation
•
find and fix technologies
•
spatial characterisation of leakage
•
forecasting of leakage
•
cost-benefit analysis of leakage.
