'Its insane to lock these vital infrastructures into cyclical investment periods'

摘要

As TV character Victor Merdrew would say - "I don't believe it!" The Highways Agency is to introduce a five-yearly investment cycle from next year. What's that got to do with the water sector? It's quite simple - quite a few contractors that serve the water industry also work on the highways. This means those contractors will have not one but two five-yearly investment cycles to contend with. And in the same year - 2015.