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Annual Report 2008
Annual Report 2008

Latest News

  • New DWQR Website Goes Live

    Wed 01 Jul 2009

    Welcome to the new DWQR website! The site has been completely re-designed to make it more user friendly and accessible to consumers. It aims to provide information on every aspect of drinking water quality and how DWQR works to check and safeguard this.

  • DWQR Takes Enforcement Action at Penwhirn

    Wed 01 Jul 2009

    DWQR has issued an enforcement notice against Scottish Water for Penwhirn water supply zone, which covers much of Galloway around Stranraer and Newton Stewart. The enforcement is in respect of breaches of the iron and trihalomethane (THM) standards and follows the failure of Scottish Water to resolve the issue within the timescale of an earlier Authorised Departure.

  • By Products Of Chloramination Research

    Fri 22 May 2009

    The Scottish Government has published the results of research by Cranfield University into the by-products of the chloramination disinfection process.

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