Introduction

This Information and Guidance Note (IGN) has been developed to inform those wishing to understand and navigate the complex and intertwined nature of the many elements that make up the UK water industry.

Its target audiences include those:

• Coming new to the industry
• Changing role or discipline within it
• Searching to establish whether a standard exists on a particular topic
• Simply curious to better understand terminology and relationships whose explanation is not easily found elsewhere.

The need for such a document was recognised following discussions between the Future Water Association (FWA) and the Water UK Standards Board.

With the Board’s approval the IGN’s development has been undertaken by a Task and Finish Group chaired by a representative of the FWA. The Group contained representatives from the wider industry sector. The draft IGN is open for three-months public comment on the WUK Standards Board website before finalisation and publication.