The WINEP (Water Industry National Environment Programme) is a regulatory framework which all water companies operating in England must comply with in order to meet their environmental obligations. Often these actions require ‘grey’, or ‘end-of-pipe' solutions that involve an upgrade or modification to one of our assets. 

 

The Advanced WINEP, or A-WINEP, will explore how doing things differently in collaboration with a multitude of stakeholders can deliver wider environmental improvements across catchments on a larger scale than is possible through the standard WINEP approach.

Rather than just utilising traditional solutions, the A-WINEP will use nature-based solutions (NbS) to tackle water quality and water resource issues across a number of trial target catchments, within both rural and urban settings. Capturing the benefits of this approach will enable us to build confidence in the A-WINEP approach and provide evidence to inform future WINEP development across the sector. 

 

Collaboration and partnerships are key to the A-WINEP, bringing together the key stakeholders from across catchments to help solve challenges together, maximising improvements to the environment and communities. We will pursue our A-WINEP without compromising the obligations laid out in our WINEP. 

 

Our A-WINEP Vision aligns with our company purpose:  To bring social and environmental prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to love every drop.   

 

Our A-WINEP Vision is our opportunity to provide consistency to collaborative environmental delivery, facilitating a long-term partnership approach to enable the delivery of wider environmental gain and social prosperity in our urban and river catchments. It will also provide a template for the sector to work in a different way for PR29 and beyond.

 Our Advanced WINEP will be delivered through 3 Pillars of work:  

 

An £11.4million Grant Fund will support projects that improve the ecological health of our rivers; improving water quality in rivers and bathing waters and managing water resources by mitigating the impact of low flows. 

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