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WRcThe WRc Group is a privately-owned group of companies providing research and consultancy on water supply, waste treatment and the public. Additional recommended knowledge
HistoryThe organisation began in 1927 as the Water Pollution Research Laboratory (WPL), based in Luton, part of the Civil Service, with a remit of providing research and advice on sewage treatment. During the Second World War the WPL also worked in other areas, of which the best-remembered was the creation of a device for airmen to make sea water acceptable as drinking water. In the 1950s the WPL moved to Stevenage, and here it is associated with the first systematic analyses of sewage treatment. In 1974, following the reorganisation of the UK water supply industry, the WPL was converted to a quango, controlled by the publicly-owned Regional Water Authorities. It was also amalgamated with the Water Research Association (WRA) and the Water Resources Board. The WRA had been founded in 1953 and provided research and advice on drinking water treatment to the municipal bodies responsible for drinking water supply. The WRA was based at Medmenham. The new organisation was renamed the Water Research Centre. In 1989 the Water Research Centre was privatised and renamed WRc PLC, as part of the privatisation of the UK water industry. At that stage it shut down its Stevenage site. In 2004 the Medmenham site was also shut down, leaving Swindon as WRc's main site. Today the WRc Group employs 200 people. Its shares are mainly owned by its staff. AchievementsNotable amongst WRc output are the following: 1960s
1970s
1980s
TodayToday WRc works both with the public and private sectors in the UK and internationally. Its clients are:
Following privatisation WRc has been less active in leading research. However the initiative in this field has passed to the Foundation for Water Research in the 1990s, and the UK Water Industry Research in the 2000s. WRc carried out research for the FWR during its 1990s period, and continues to do research projects with UKWIR. See alsoPlastic pressure pipe systems
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