About the Regulations
The Water Fittings Regulations are national standards to help ensure the design, installation, and maintenance of plumbing systems, water fittings, and water-using appliances comply.
These regulations are in place to prevent waste, misuse, excessive consumption, inaccurate measurement, and most importantly, contamination, to protect the quality of your drinking water. As your water supplier, we are legally required to enforce these regulations and are committed to doing so consistently across our service area.
Where the Regulations apply
The Regulations cover all plumbing systems, water fittings, and water-using equipment in any premises connected to the public mains drinking water supply.
As an owner, occupier, or installer of plumbing systems and water fittings, you have a legal duty to ensure everything meets these Regulations.
Notification
You may need to provide advance notice of any planned plumbing work. This means architects, building developers, and installers must adhere to the Regulations on behalf of future owners or occupiers.
For more information, please read our Regulation 5 Notification.
How we inspect
As part of our commitment to providing safe and clean drinking water, we are required to inspect third-party premises in our service area.
This work is vital to help safeguard the public drinking water supply and to protect public health. We use a risk-based approach, considering various factors to identify premises that may pose a higher water quality risk to our network.
Our inspection programme includes visiting the following premises;
Additionally, we also conduct reactive inspections at premises where there is a potential risk to public health.
How we enforce the Regulations
We are committed to ensuring the highest water quality standards are maintained. As part of our legal obligation, our team of qualified Water Fittings Regulations Technicians enforce these Regulations.
Enforcement action is taken using a risk-based approach considering the following;