Delivering Ministerial Objectives

Delivering Ministerial Objectives 

Scottish Ministers set objectives for Scottish Water. These are our objectives for the next regulatory period.

Objectives SR21-27:

• Take an integrated and collaborative approach to decisions to maximise the impact of resources and to achieve better outcomes for people and communities. 
• Maintain or improve current levels of service, engaging to establish appropriate standards for the 2021-27 period and beyond. 
• Prepare a strategy to inform the long term asset replacement needs ensuring asset maintenance is fully integrated in the investment programme. 
• Identify and provide new strategic capacity to meet the demand of all new housing development and domestic requirements of commercial and industrial development. 
• Align with the Scottish Government’s circular economy strategy and assess the potential for resource recovery from sewerage. 
• Comply with drinking water quality duties and address failures to ensure compliance with drinking water quality standards, taking steps to improve resilience and remove lead from the network. 
• Improve compliance with environmental licences and limit the amount of plastics reaching the water environment through the sewer network. 
• Work with stakeholders to transform how rainwater and sewerage are managed to improve flooding and surface water management.  
• Maintain and improve the security of its network and systems, to protect them from malicious attack.
• Make substantive progress in the 2021-27 period towards the climate change targets. 
• Prepare and implement plans to manage its private finance initiative contracts which end in the 2021-27 period.