Water Company Supply-Demand Forecasts from 2020/21 to 2044/45

Revised draft water resource management plans from 2019 provide a statutory minimum 25-year forecast for all water companies in England and Wales. The Environment Agency compiled this company-level dataset, which supersedes an earlier draft version. Some companies included optional longer-term projections up to 2079/80 for transparency.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking water company supply-demand forecasts based on the statutory planning period mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing trends in water resource management at a company-aggregated level based on the combined Water Resource Zone data.
• Comparing revised draft plans against earlier drafts for regulatory appraisal, as referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a statutory 25-year planning period from 2020/21 to 2044/45 for all water companies.
• Provides a consistent, company-level view by combining data from multiple Water Resource Zones.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and superseded by a newer version, as stated in the description.
• Data for years beyond 2044/45 is incomplete and provided for informational purposes only.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency, compiled from water company revised draft Water Resources Management Plans (rdWRMP19).

Collection Method

Extracted and combined from company-submitted plan tables to create a consistent company-level dataset.

Time Range

2020/21 to 2044/45, with some optional data to 2079/80.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

England and Wales, at water company level.