General

The Inspectorate manages the Water Directorate (WD)’s Water Distribution, Conservation and Quality (WDCQ) research programme, which is part of the Defra Environment Protection Group (EPG) research programme.

The WDCQ programme supports Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government policy on the quality and regulation of water supplies and enables the Inspectorate to make an input to international drinking water issues.

Information on WDCQ Research

Enquiries should be addressed to DWI enquiries, 2/A2 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE or by E mail to: dwi.enquiries@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Executive summaries of WDCQ research reports and Department of the Environment and Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions research reports from 1977 are posted on the Foundation for Water Research (FWR) website (www.fwr.org) with details of how to obtain copies of research reports. The FWR website also provides access to a number of reports concerning components of the European Commission’s Framework Programmes that are relevant to WD interests.

General enquiries about the EPG programme should be directed to: Ken Nulty, Defra, Zone 4/C2, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

As part of the Departmental evaluation of its use of science, each Directorate is producing its Science Strategy. These are posted on the Defra website and the WD document can be found at the following web address: www.defra.gov.uk/Science/S_IS/Strategy03_06/Directorate_PDF/WD.pdf

Research completed in 2003

Current research