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We want to return trust to the sector and where all sectors contribute their fair share toward sustainable water management.

Decisions about investment need to be faster, more flexible and more responsive to local environments. It needs to be quicker, easier and cheaper to build new infrastructure.

We need the UK and Welsh governments to set a smaller number of clearer objectives to inform the decisions made by regulators and water companies.

Investment has been constrained even as pressure has grown on ageing water and waste infrastructure. This has left the sector with its highest ever need for investment.

Restoring ecological health to our waterways, rebuilding tired infrastructure and restoring the public’s trust in the water sector will all require a fundamental reset of the system.

The introduction over time of fourth-stage treatment funded by polluters via an extended producer responsibility scheme

Based on previous work, we will make specific recommendations on funding for asset health in line with the new operational resilience standard

We need an effective approach to deciding what gets built so that decisions to be made in a timely and efficient way

The existing framework for environmental improvement is failing to deliver the outcomes the public expect.