Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what efforts the department is making to legislate to force the better consumption of our water resources such as utilising grey water or calling on water companies to increase the amount of desalination plants.

This Government recognises the benefits of greywater reuse in new developments and is taking steps to support its use for domestic and non-domestic purposes. We committed in the Water White Paper to reforming how greywater is used.

Water companies’ revised statutory Water Resources Management Plans include development of eight new desalination plants.