Policy paper

Water Bill: sustainable development and resilience duties

This is one of a series of briefing notes on the Water Bill.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 17 December 2013
• Last updated: 15 January 2014
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  1. 15 January 2014

     This note has been updated to reflect the amendments made to the new duty of resilience in the House of Commons to ensure that the Government’s strong commitment to the sustainable management of water resources is set out explicitly on the face of the legislation.

  2. 10 January 2014

     Document replaced with updated version.

  3. 17 December 2013

     First published.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This publication was withdrawn on 15 May 2014

These briefing notes are now out of date and have been archived. The Water Bill received Royal Assent on 14 May 2014.

Documents

Water Bill: Sustainable development and resilience duties

Ref: PB14102

PDF, 109 KB, 17 pages

Details

This note explains what the new resilience duty in the Water Bill will do and its relationship to the existing duties.