Peter simpson anglian water biography of william
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Peter Simpson has been CEO of Anglian Water since 2013. He spoke to CIWEM policy director Alastair Chisholm about sewage, how to restore public trust in water companies and how a landscape-scale approach to managing water is the future
In at the deep end
It’s impossible to avoid starting with the issue grabbing political and media headlines: sewage and storm overflows.
Peter simpson anglian water biography of william
I ask Simpson how the water industry was caught on the back foot so much by event duration monitor (EDM) data and whether it should have better anticipated the backlash given it knew a decade ago what was on the way.
There’s no doubt, he says, that companies haven’t given the issue the attention it deserved; that they should have responded more quickly.
They have to take that on the chin.
He says that in Anglian’s region at least, eyes were likely on other challenges: There, storm overflows only contribute to just over one percent of reasons for not achieving good ecological status un