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Thames Water has signed up three partners to deliver the major infrastructure needed to enhance water supplies.
The strategic resource options programme will comprise of Arcadis Consulting, Jacobs & Mott MacDonald, and Turner & Townsend.
Simon Adams, strategic resources programme director at Thames, said the new framework was “another significant step forward” in securing future water resilience.
“These frameworks give us access to the breadth of specialist services required to ensure our projects are delivered efficiently and effectively,” he added.
The water company said the framework will give it access to £160 million of professional support services to advance strategic projects.
The three companies in the framework will support delivery of the major infrastructure required to meet water scarcity issues, which for Thames includes a reservoir at Abbingdon in Oxfordshire and transfer pipelines.
Earlier this month the company finalised the technical partners it will be working with during the next asset management period (AMP8) from 2025-30. The organisations in the programme partner framework will support the delivery and implementation of its strategic water resources work.
Thames has forecast it will need to supply an extra 1 billion litres of water every day to the capital and Thames Valley by 2075 within its water resource management plan (WRMP).
Within 10 years, there will be a need for 372 megalitres daily, and 1,059 megalitres each day by 2050. This extra need is a combination of population growth requiring extra resources and reducing abstraction from sensitive water sources to ensure enough is left in the environment as the climate changes.
Thames’ WRMP also includes proposals for water recycling to support a new abstraction point at Teddington and a transfer from Severn Trent’s catchment into the Thames’ region.
These new supplies will support demand reduction work, which includes its smart metering rollout that has passed one million installations and a sector-wide commitment to halve leakage by 2050.
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