‘Country boy’ says ‘modernisation’ must help companies hit water quality targets

Alan Lovell DL, the government’s preferred candidate for Environment Agency Chair, has been grilled by MPs today.

He said he hoped to help the Environment Agency “modernise” in order to better monitor and aid water companies ability to fulfil their forthcoming unprecedented obligations to check water quality. He admitted that the agency had been slow to innovate in the past.

He said he was a “country boy” and that he hoped his experience in both private and public sectors would help him in the role of Chair.