FWA's Contribution to the Water Commission Call for Evidence: Members' Only
The Independent Commission on the Water Sector Regulatory System has launched a Call for Evidence to assess how regulation in the UK water sector should evolve to better support resilience, innovation, and long-term investment. Future Water Association (FWA) is responding on behalf of our supply chain members, ensuring your concerns and priorities are represented.
Here is a link: Water Commission Call for Evidence
Why This Matters to the Supply Chain
The regulatory framework governs everything from procurement to investment cycles, impacting how innovation, infrastructure, and services are delivered. Many of our members face barriers in bringing new technologies to market, securing contracts, and navigating regulatory complexity. This is an opportunity to shape current thinking, so that the supply chain can play a more active, integrated, and influential role in the future of the water sector.
Future Water’s Key Priorities in the Response:
Encouraging Innovation & Investment – Advocating for a regulatory framework that accelerates technology adoption, supports IP commercialisation, and creates financial incentives for innovative solutions.
Strengthening the Supply Chain’s Role – Ensuring suppliers are engaged earlier in decision-making for leakage, metering, infrastructure resilience, and network investment planning.
Improving Standards & Regulation – Calling for a national standardisation framework to reduce fragmentation, enhance resilience, and streamline compliance.
Supporting Workforce Development – Addressing the industry’s skills shortages and advocating for regulatory mechanisms that support workforce growth and apprenticeships.
Enhancing Data & Cybersecurity – Promoting AI-driven analytics, cybersecurity protections, and better data-sharing protocols to modernise the sector.
Development Services & Infrastructure Planning – Ensuring better coordination between NAVs, developers, local councils, and water companies to reduce delays and inefficiencies in infrastructure delivery.
What Happens Next?
Future Water will be submitting its official response by the Commission’s deadline and continuing to engage with policymakers to ensure the supply chain’s voice is heard. We invite all members to contribute insights, case studies, and evidence to strengthen our response.
If your company has direct experience with regulatory barriers, innovation deployment challenges, or market entry difficulties, we encourage you to share your perspectives.
Your input can shape the regulatory reforms that will define the future of the UK water sector.