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SOUTH‐EAST HOUSING DEVELOPMENT — THE QUEST FOR SUSTAINABILITY: WATER AND SEWERAGE NEEDS
Author(s) -
Evans S. G.,
Spillett P. B.,
Colquhoun K.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.2003.tb00478.x
Subject(s) - sewerage , sustainability , environmental planning , sustainable development , statutory law , business , resource (disambiguation) , water resources , water industry , sewage , water quality , scale (ratio) , water supply , water resource management , environmental resource management , environmental engineering , engineering , environmental science , geography , political science , ecology , computer network , law , computer science , biology , cartography
In March 2000, a document entitled Draft Regional Planning Guidance for the South East was published with the primary aim of providing a regional framework for the preparation of development plans to the year 2016. This paper discusses the potential effects for the water industry of SERPLAN’s predicted levels of housing growth on water resources, sewage treatment and the environment. The need for sustainable development with the competing pressures of water‐resource limitation, changing regulation, increasing demand and the environment, are discussed. Thames Water’s scale of operations is described together with the range of measures aimed at managing the reasonable demands of customers, consistent with achieving sustainable growth. Basingstoke is described as a wastewater case study, highlighting the problem in fulfilling the sewerage undertaker’s statutory duties in (a) meeting already stringent effluent‐treatment standards which are necessary to maintain and improve river quality, and (b) providing the necessary infrastructure for an area which is earmarked for continuing development.