To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will list the water reservoirs which (a) have become operational in each year since 1990 and (b) are planned; and who the operating company is in each case. (137612)

The only major public water supply reservoir, owned by a water company, to become operational since 1990 is Severn Trent Water’s Carsington reservoir in 1992.

Water companies identified the need for five new and three extended reservoirs in their 25-year water resource management plans prepared in 2004. Details are provided in the following tables.