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Delivering UNSDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation for All

“The significance of this report cannot be overstated… it is this kind of thorough and forward-thinking reporting that strengthens our City’s role in tackling global challenges, ensuring a prosperous and sustainable future for all” – The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli. The report Clean Water and…...

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In our responses to the Ofwat consultations on water efficiency the Company has been advocating a review of water consumption tariffs. We think that the attached report on energy tariffs by Ofgem will be of interest.

For the report, published 23 August 2024, go to  https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-08/Standing%20Charges%20-%20summary%20of%20responses.pdf   Standing charge clamour shows need for new kids on the (rising) block By James Wallin, Utility Week editor https://utilityweek.co.uk/more-diverse-tariffs-could-reduce-standing-charges/  The level of ire over standing charges on energy bills was made abundantly clear by the response to Ofgem’s call for…...

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Drawing breath after almost three years hard work! An overview of our thinking on water conservation since early 2022

After almost three years of activity in making submissions to consultations and producing thinkpieces , now is a good time to take stock of what we have done . This is particularly important in terms of making our voice heard by the policy makers in government . We have produced…...

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Ofwat incentives News

The WCWC has responded to the Ofwat consultation on its July proposals for a Common Framework on Environmental Incentives as a part of the drive for water use efficiency. It has supported them , with some caveats, and suggested a ‘sunset clause’. It is concerned that these proposals do not…...

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Mistress Glover’s Flying Circus

Many thanks to everyone for your support and sponsorship for the Deputy Master’s Consort Eileen Bigg.  She was one of fifteen brave volunteer flyers from the Glovers and other Livery companies who took to the air on a 1942 Boeing Stearman bi-plane and wing-walked at the old Royal Flying Corps…...

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Rowing the Water Conservator’s Cutter

With two crews we rowed our Cutter Water Forget-Me-Not almost to the Thames Barrier and twice to the O2 (Millenium Dome) from the Cutter’s base in Charlton. We all had great fun and learnt so much, not only about rowing, but also about the Thames, its history and the moderrn…...

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The Water Conservation Trust

Congratulations to the University of Cambridge and the students and staff on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development.  It has been running for 22 years during which nearly 700 students have completed the programme.  The Water Conservation Trust is pleased support students on the course with a bursary and…...

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Port of London Challenge

We won! The Port of London Challenge is a race is for six oared Watermen’s cutters carrying a coxswain and one passenger (the Master). The course is from HQS ‘Wellington’, King’s Reach to Imperial Wharf, a distance of approx. 4.6 statute miles.  Our super Cutter Water Forget-me-not and team had…...

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Presentation of water to the Lord Mayor

The Master has presented the Lord Mayor, Alderman Michael Mainelli, with a jug of Thames Water, as a reminder of the value of water to the City of London. On 14 July 1197, King Richard 1, in order to improve his liquidity, sold the Conservancy of the River Thames to…...

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Great News from this morning’s Defra Press release

This morning ( 11July ) the Secretary of State included in his announcement on the future of water company management that Water companies will place customers and the environment at the heart of their objectives. The Secretary of State is clear that he expects companies to change their ‘Articles of…...

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